Art history: do you want me to draw you a diagram?

2019

Art history: do you want me to draw you a diagram? was an experimental project/exhibition developed in collaboration with curator and long-time collaborator David Gilbert. The following is the shows interpretation text:

There is always a temptation to try to come up with a Universal Theory of Everything, to understand or make sense of what we are doing and making. This has been at the core of the work David and Kate have undertaken in relation to Kate’s practice and its outcomes. Since 2008 they have come together repeatedly to look at Kate’s work and have often used diagrams by leading cultural theorists to think with and describe its repeated re-iterations. But all these diagrams, and Kate and David’s, have proven to be inadequate. All are – inevitably – provisional responses.
This collaboration has seen them looking back over Kate’s archive of work and considering its current concerns against those of 2008, which placed Kate and her work in the Wider World. In response, they have generated this show and a new diagram which attempts to redefine the relationship between Kate, the work and the Wider World.
The layering of the work on the walls and tables is deliberately archaeological and is a direct attempt to visually undermine a linear historical narrative. It creates physical and temporal overlaps and allows unexpected glimpses of works in each other.

Kate Genever and David Gilbert.

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Thanks to
Haarlem Artspace

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