Diagramming: the space of a painting, the space of a room

Derby, Moyra (2023) Diagramming: the space of a painting, the space of a room. [Exhibition/show, Painting, Site-specific work]

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Creators:

Derby, Moyra

Corporate or Group Creators:

The Foundry Gallery

Description/Abstract:

‘Diagramming: the space of a painting, the space of a room’ at The Foundry Gallery, London was a research lead solo show.

Working with an expanded model of painting that is active within its spatial setting while still pictorially conditioned, the works installed at The Foundry Gallery adapted and responded to the room dimensions and architectural details of the gallery space.
The use of the term diagram can evoke a demonstration of possibilities, functions, and relations but it can also indicate a reductive or limiting schema. Here it is imagined as both a substrate and an overlay for painting and room, imaginatively depictive and at the same time conceptually abstracted, prompting a set of actions or interactions, while also picturing them. The room is imagined as a framework for inhabited space and for interior reflection, capturing painting’s associative and visualising capacities. Transactions between the visual and the tactile, interplays between the imagined and the actualised, and the moving components of works and visitors are put in play. A provisional and discursive state for painting is proposed through loops of potential interactions. Preoccupations with paint application, building colour and catching surface incident and the layered residues of processing participate in this invitation to the gallery visitor.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Date:

30 March 2023

Material:

various painting structures - wall and floor based, acrylic on plywood, wall drawings

Locations / Venues:

Location

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The Foundry Gallery, London, UK

30 March 2023