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Esther Ferrer
[ Basque ]
performance
'Performance X'
Sat 5th Nov. 2005
18.00
installation exhibition
[view by appointment]
6th - 26th Nov. 2005
Esther Ferrer's work spans four decades of international avant-garde
activity. Although internationally recognsied for her work in performance
art, both as solo artist and as a member of the seminal Spanish
group ZAJ , she has also consistently produced installations. She
has exhibited her work globally and represented Spain at the Venice
Biennale in 1999.
Her installations are sometimes born out of her performances and
sometimes the opposite occurs. She also finds, however, that performance
and installation are inseparable:
'Like the two faces of a coin'.
Whatever the formal context, Esther Ferrer¹s work can be thought
of as a particular type of minimalism that integrates rigour with
absurdity. David Perex has noted; 'While the artist carefully places
a large glass on her head, we try to find the hidden mechanism by
which the object was chosen.
Entering that secret dynamic, we try compulsively to discover the
raison d'etre which, in the language of logic and the syntex of
reason, could justify - even in a crude and clumsy manner - what
is in truth always
unjustifiable: the presence of some things that, despite, acquiring
life through our presence, are fully independent of it.'
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