Cerith Wyn Evans

Born, 1958 in Llanelli, Wales

From the archived Documenta 11 website : www.documenta12.de//archiv/d11/data/english/index.html

“Alluding to the threshold between the literary and the filmic, Cerith Wyn Evans explores the communicative potential of sculpture by inscribing encrypted messages into a perceptual maze of quotational references. Intuitively tuned into a visual beat, information is pulsed, hidden in a dialectic between the visible and the invisible. Inverse, Reverse, Perverse (1996), a large concave mirror in the shape of the lens of the eye and adapted to the focal point of Le Corbusier’s modernized norm of standardized vision, playfully reflects on the pleasures of seeing and being seen by offering three different surreal reflections to the approaching spectator “ inversion, reduction, and grotesque distortion. Cleave 00 (2000) consists of a projection of a myriad of spinning white light bulbs and a disco ball that transmit fragments of texts by William Blake transposed into Morse code, causing a sense of slight nausea while dispersing words into flashes of light.”

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