Omon Ra
Burgoyne, Greig (2013) Omon Ra. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Film, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work]
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Invited artist as part of the ongoing drawing project where contemporary artists respond to the site.
Of late the work of Greig Burgoyne has made a timely shift from representations of spacial conflict to a more propositional stance that wrestles taxonomy of thinking and a speculative agency of markmaking.
In doing so, Burgoyne proposes alternative mental spaces that expand his interest in the arena between private and public and seek to reconcile thinking and space. The outcomes are site specific wall drawings and work on paper installations often created using flipchart pens, dry board markers and post-it notes. Through accumulation, repetition and endurance, the materials of bureaucracy are transformed into ‘sites’ that seek to escape or resist the conventions of discursive regimes and generate an immersive and liberated potentiality of ‘placeless place’ . They seek to do this both practically through escaping perhaps unseen forces of control whilst register the movements of what might be impossible, and conceptually through an expansion of the ‘fold’ as an intensification of weakness as it occurs in the writings of Deleuze.
Burgoyne sees his drawings as propositions only completed and brought into being as a result of the context they are in. The seeming incompleteness and openness of his work invites the audience to play a part in their creation and evolution, whilst also challenge the role of gallery as a site for work that is ‘dead on arrival’ and subsequently closed to further development. For the drawing project, Burgoyne has sought to transform the galleries into an immersive and confrontational installation of drawings that re-orientate and demand re-navigation of the gallery space itself. In doing so Burgoyne seeks to challenge the way we relate to space, the fixed status of the physical versus its illusive mental flux.
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