TOMORROW (GORSE, PAYNE`S GREY, SLATE GREY, VIOLET, INDIGO)
The three-part work TOMORROW was created for the rooms of the Kingsgate Project Space and derives its color from the genista plant. TOMORROW consists of multiple long sheets of paper that have been printed on one another and then separated. The paper that initially functions as a medium for printing later reappears in the complete installation as an own piece. The color of the work shifts from yellow to lime green depending on the shifting presence of natural or artificial light.
Text by Dan Daniel Howard-Birt:
Painting directly onto long drapes of rice paper within the space of the exhibition, Anna Schapiro creates a relationship between the performance of light (how the crests and folds and edges of the stained papers are illuminated as a rich territory of complexly nuanced surfaces) and liquid (how colour is not on, but in the substrate, and how that colour bleeds through to the wall as a kind of incremental seepage). In these works the action of light and liquid become like the action of looking. The looking happens onto and into the works, such that their material porosity and colour sensitivity echoes the ways that all paintings reveal themselves slowly through durational looking. Looking is a slippery mix of navigation, questioning, pleasured pursuits, returns, mental comparisons, cul-de-sacs, scale shifts, and so on. All of these things happen at the same time, and the longer we are with a work, these different emphases take momentary precedence, but then settle back into the multi-faceted looking-action.
