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I WAS A TEENAGE HAND MODEL
Richard Paul
Fri 3 Oct - Sun 26 Oct 2003
Fri - Sun 2-6
Generating work that recalls product photography
Richard G Paul presents us
with a gloriously fake universe of hyper-real objects. The images
in this
show stand out of time and out of reality – existing in a slipshod
yet
perfectly formed state of emptied meaning and malformed non-intent.
Instead
of capturing a photographic moment in time Paul creates abstracted
objects
that become a-signifying still-lifes, dislocating themselves from
any
conceivable notion of cause and effect. The objects in Paul’s
work display a
physicality that borders on the hyper-visceral, appearing as by-products
of
a process that liquefies real and solid things into abstracted subliminal
seductions.
Consolidating colour and form with a sleazy
approach of perfect sheens and
willed perfection Paul enters a realm of surreal marketing logic.
Significant fluids and cheese. Your heart’s / genital’s
/ local branch
manager’s desire. Think what you will if you can. These works
only aim to
provide a stimuli, it is up to the viewer to produce the response
to the
paradoxical displays on offer. Stuff and nonsense becomes non-sensical
stuff
that is exquisitely packaged and marketed, entering into an exchange
of
signal and response that disrupts its own logic of desirability.
left: measure. right: tumbler
Ask yourself – "Am I being [sexually
/ intellectually / symbolically] aroused and / or challenged by
this picture?" All these things are possible and more in this
world of free-floating cocktails and dental wash.
left: shot glass. right: shot gold
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