Feature: Kelly Wood and Monika Grzymala in Vancouver
Monika Grzymala Distortion 2008 and Kelly Wood Binary Sound Systems 2008 Installation view Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery
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Monika Grzymala Distortion 2008 and Kelly Wood Binary Sound Systems 2008 Installation view Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery |
Curator Jessie Caryl makes the incommensurability of sound, space and imagery the central theme in an exhibition of new works by artists Kelly Wood and Monika Grzymala. While Wood’s most famous series—Continuous Garbage Project—examined how the formal qualities of trash could be an index for human activity, the artist’s new work attempts to translate improvised sound into a visual symbolic system. The result: a series of near-monochromatic photo images that depict the binary code formats of digital song recordings. Using songs from Canadian avant-garde musical groups like the Nihilist Spasm Band and the UJ3RK5, Wood pushes the logic of binary code to its extreme, creating illegible documents that resemble snow on an idle television set.
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Monika Grzymala Distortion 2008 Installation view Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery |
Hamburg-based artist Monika Grzymala’s work likewise capitalizes on unexpected glitches of digital translation in a site-specific project that employs seven kilometres of adhesive tape. Attaching gingham-like sculptural patterns to the gallery’s walls, floor and ceiling, the artist makes physical the random errors and pixelation that occur in electronic imagery. In conversation with Wood’s two-dimensional images, Grzymala’s intervention explores ongoing tensions between intention and accident, order and chaos. (274 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC)
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Kelly Wood Binary Sound Systems 2008 Installation view Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery |
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