Dissolution: the matter of colour

Hon, Gordon and Taylor, Mia (2022) Dissolution: the matter of colour. Dissolution: The Matter of Colour, , London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Co-Curator with Mia Taylor at Five Years, London. With artists: Jheni Arboine, Untitled Cloud, Helena Goldwater, Lucia King, Mindy Lee, Wayne Lucas, Louisa Minkin, Mia Taylor and Cheng-Chu Weng.

An exhibition based on different contemporary approaches to water colour.

Exhibition text: “The dampness of watercolours made the paper buckle unpleasantly and the wet colours would run together; on occasion it would be impossible to get rid of some extraordinarily tenacious Prussion blue - no sooner would you get a small bit of it on the very tip your brush than it would already be running all over the enamel in the box, devouring the shade you had prepared and turning the water in the glass a poisonous blue. There were thick tubes with india ink and ceruse, but the caps invariably got lost, the necks would dry up, and when he pressed too hard the tube would burst at the bottom and thence would come crawling and writhing a fat worm of goo. His daubings were fruitless and even the simplest things-a vase with flowers or a sunset copied from a travel folder of the Riviera-came out spotty, sickly, horrible.”
Vladimir Nabakov, The Defence

“…she cried out that the car’s boundaries were dissolving, the boundaries of Marcello, too, at the wheel were dissolving, the thing and the person were gushing out of themselves, mixing liquid metal and flesh. […] she mustn’t ever be distracted: if she became distracted real things, which, with their violent, painful contortions, terrified her, would gain the upper hand over the unreal ones, which, with their physical and moral solidity, pacified her; she would be plunged into a sticky, jumbled reality and would never again be able to give sensations clear outlines.”
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

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