Print is understood here both as a medium and as a concept: a mark left through pressure, contact, repetition or reproduction. From the repetitive gestures of the factory floor to the rhythms of domestic work; from mechanical reproduction to digital copying; from routine and ritual to exhaustion and resistance — repetition is embedded within both labour and how images, objects and ideas are produced and circulated.
A print can be an impression, a trace, a copy, a record, a pattern, a surface, or evidence of an action.
In an increasingly automated and digitally reproduced world, what does it mean to make something by hand?
What happens when labour becomes repetitive in the printing process?
And how might repetition become a strategy for resistance, survival, memory or transformation?
Welcome to this months exhibition!
Artist: Mandy Eugeniou
www.mandyeugeniou.com
Description: STOKE: Moonie number 1 is part of a series of artworks under the title “Touch Methodologies” that explores sickness and visibility. Scanning my body daily for symptoms is a daily ritual, and doing so with a portable scanner becomes an act of defiance when domesticity is a system of confinement. What gets registered in the repetitive back and forth motion of hand and scanner, is an attempt to know texture and touch of interiority from exteriority. Scanning might bring the object closer to the eye than the camera; it is a haptic process which entails the sense of physical touch as well as vision, and horizontal orientation. This is a process I use as part of my work about pain to explore the dissonance of interior experience and exterior reality, usually at the borderline of sleepiness.