‘It doesn’t reveal itself’: erosion and collapse of the image in contemporary visual practice
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Mieves, ChristianIssue Date
2018-07-19
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The article explores the extent to which ‘pictorial art’ resists legibility, transparency and coherence. The analysis of three artistic case studies, Idris Khan, Maria Chevska and Jane and Louise Wilson, serves to investigate established hierarchies in our perception of visual referents. In the discussion, the article inquires the means of erosion, veiling and dissemblance as ways to critique assumption of the homogeneity of the image. All artists cast a view of the external world by diverting it, defacing it and distancing themselves from the external environment. However, the distancing is never disconnected from the everyday and never succumbs to abstraction. The article argues that the crisis of the image offers a productive framework that allows artists to draw attention to the absence of logical structure and the instability of the visual sign.Citation
Christian Mieves (2018) ‘It doesn’t reveal itself’: erosion and collapse of the image in contemporary visual practice, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 17:2-3, 206-224, DOI: 10.1080/14702029.2018.1466455Publisher
RoutledgeJournal
Journal of Visual Art PracticeAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702029.2018.1466455Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1470-2029ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/14702029.2018.1466455
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