Exhibition private viewing 16th july
07th July 2010
Liquid Aesthetic
New work by Delpha Hudson
Silverworkz Gallery, Hayle,
17th July – 21st August
Private View Friday 16th July 6‐8pm
YOUI’,
bitumen dripped onto gessoed canvas (40x50cm)
Exploring the politics of female identity, I drip bitumen onto canvas creating
narratives for multiple selves. Psychoanalytic theories of self, non‐self and other
reveal problematic processes of ‘becoming’ for women. Using pattern and image I
endeavour to construct
‘iconographic utterance,….the dream as a fiction constructed by a unique aesthetic;
the transformation of the subject into [her] thoughts, specifically the placing of the
self into an allegory of desire and dread that is fashioned by the ego’.1
1 Mieke Bal in Pollock, G. (ed), (2006), Psychoanalysis and the Image, Blackwell,:London, p.32
The aesthetic form transforms thought, a beautiful language to express the nonnarratable
self. Bitumen is an earthy, textual substance. There is a ‘magical
happenstance’ in its use, as control is limited. The contrast of using only black and
white is a metaphor for subjectivity, split between thought, and transformation. The
pattern work is ‘text’, constructing a language with which to explore gender
Attention to gender can change the very foundations of looking. My work aims to
explore what women are, and what they can be.
www.delphahudson.co.uk
New work by Delpha Hudson
Silverworkz Gallery, Hayle,
17th July – 21st August
Private View Friday 16th July 6‐8pm
YOUI’,
bitumen dripped onto gessoed canvas (40x50cm)
Exploring the politics of female identity, I drip bitumen onto canvas creating
narratives for multiple selves. Psychoanalytic theories of self, non‐self and other
reveal problematic processes of ‘becoming’ for women. Using pattern and image I
endeavour to construct
‘iconographic utterance,….the dream as a fiction constructed by a unique aesthetic;
the transformation of the subject into [her] thoughts, specifically the placing of the
self into an allegory of desire and dread that is fashioned by the ego’.1
1 Mieke Bal in Pollock, G. (ed), (2006), Psychoanalysis and the Image, Blackwell,:London, p.32
The aesthetic form transforms thought, a beautiful language to express the nonnarratable
self. Bitumen is an earthy, textual substance. There is a ‘magical
happenstance’ in its use, as control is limited. The contrast of using only black and
white is a metaphor for subjectivity, split between thought, and transformation. The
pattern work is ‘text’, constructing a language with which to explore gender
Attention to gender can change the very foundations of looking. My work aims to
explore what women are, and what they can be.
www.delphahudson.co.uk
