TODAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2011 - 16 OCTOBER 2011
TODAY Cherine Fahd has developed a new body of work that uses time as the framework for charting change. Interested in the imperceptible transformations that occur in people, materials and objects, this new work addresses the certainty of change and the idea of impermanence. Like her self-portrait series “Hiding”, the work exhibited in “Today” documents an activity that is diarised and performed in accordance with an instruction. The physical work is at the mercy of this instruction and so the result is seriously obsessive. The main work is two large-scale canvas drawings that contain lines or lists of the word today. One canvas is written on in a marker that is impermanent so the text and her efforts are thwarted by the artwork fading away. The other canvas is written on with a permanent marker, or at least permanent for 60 to 100 year according to the marker manufacturer. Whilst one fades quickly the other remains as a testament to its double, as a comparison or reminder of what was. Her accompanying photographs from the series Unstill accompany the canvases in their recording of barely visible transformations.
Click on a work to view an enlargement
Today (everyday is today) impermanent permanent, 2011
marker on canvas
137 x 184 cm
The word today written over and over with an impermanent marker so the text will fade over time.
Today (everyday is today) detail, 2011
marker on canvas
137 x 184 cm
Write the word TODAY everyday until the canvas is full in an effort to remain in the present.