Created By
Maria Marshall
Acrylic on canvas performance painting
Curator
Luke Chapman
What's particularly compelling is how Marshall plays with the paradox of sight in this piece. While the work is part of a 'Blindfold Series,' it actually demands intense visual engagement, drawing viewers into its textural depth and forcing them to navigate between the physical holes that interrupt the surface's continuity. The piece operates in that fertile space between seeing and feeling, between visual art and tactile experience. The industrial aesthetic, reminiscent of minimalist sculpture yet deeply corporeal in its presence, speaks to our contemporary moment where the boundaries between the mechanical and the organic increasingly blur. Through this work, Marshall invites us to question not just what we see, but how we see, pushing us to engage with art through multiple sensory channels.
Marshall's work from the 'Blindfold Series' presents us with a striking vermillion surface that seems to pulse with tension and implied violence. The composition features a methodical arrangement of puncture marks or holes set against a heavily textured crimson field, creating a braille-like pattern that speaks to themes of restricted vision and alternative modes of perception. The scarred and weathered surface, with its raised imperfections and tactile qualities, evokes thoughts of flesh or worn leather, while the industrial red coating suggests both warning and passion. These holes, uniform in their spacing yet somehow unsettling in their presence, pierce through the work's skin like a systematic wounding, forcing us to confront our own relationship with visibility and blindness.
Created By
Maria Marshall
100 x 120 cm | 39 x 47 in
2024