Letters,
Lies & Alibis
Letters, Lies & Alibis was created for Non-Stopp,
a two-person exhibition by Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Louise Paramor
at Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Letters, Lies & Alibis is a large hand
constructed wall text collage assembled from pre-hand gloss painted paper.
The texts used are selected book titles borrowed from Mills and Boon romantic
novels, which are blown up in scale with original font and book spine
colourings faithfully maintained. The entire work employs approximately
300 of these titles and completes one wall in the gallery measuring 15
x 2.5 Metres.
This piece is a celebration of the dynamism of language drawn from a literary
'low -brow' source and is a conversion of the banal into a finely tuned and highly
aesthetic ensemble. The physical hand-made nature of the realisation of the work
is designed to reiterate the subject matter of the texts, which embody a broad
range of human emotion.
Photos RMIT University
For catalogue essay by Astrid Mania go to:
http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/PSSR/exhibitions/2004/non-stopp.html
The small back gallery showcased a wall shelf sculpture entitled Yabba Dabba Dabba, which comprised 12 bought radios featuring moving lips. The radios were tuned in to different channels and together created a cacophony of jumbled noise.