Singularity
(2006)
A scientific imagination has described the effect of looking out of the black hole: time is transfigured such that all geological history is visible, between breaths one could witness himalayas erode into the sea. This evocation of swift global change is an invitation to contemplate our role in the required massive human response.
“The artists in the exhibition use formal elements not to appeal to the individuality of subjects, but to establish a common ground. Kika Thorne’s Singularity, 2006 clearly sets up such a ground. The two pink and black suspended spandex planes held in unison give form to an abstract idea, the idea of the black hole. She responds aesthetically to an idea of something that is speculative that is believed to exist, but only has an imagined form. The black hole is a theoretical description of a total gravitational collapse of a giant star or a group of stars. The centre is thought to contain so much matter in such a small space that light cannot even move through it or escape from it. The density is known as a singularity and it is this imagined space where Thorne situates her scheme. The form is very simple; using the basic physics of a parabola, Thorne draws a diagram for a discussion space where ideas, no matter how impossible to materialize, are physically caught. The singularity becomes a place where Thorne responds to the form with a specific situation, positing her own singular idea and imagining it as space where others can posit theirs.
But ultimately, Singularity maintains its status as a form that is part of a larger phenomenological practice that exists as a sensory experience where viewers can enter collectively. The subjective position isn’t denied, but is only possible after the idea is presented as a form — as an abstraction of an abstraction." — Jenifer Papararo, Gasoline Rainbows, CAG, Vancouver:
(2006)
A scientific imagination has described the effect of looking out of the black hole: time is transfigured such that all geological history is visible, between breaths one could witness himalayas erode into the sea. This evocation of swift global change is an invitation to contemplate our role in the required massive human response.
“The artists in the exhibition use formal elements not to appeal to the individuality of subjects, but to establish a common ground. Kika Thorne’s Singularity, 2006 clearly sets up such a ground. The two pink and black suspended spandex planes held in unison give form to an abstract idea, the idea of the black hole. She responds aesthetically to an idea of something that is speculative that is believed to exist, but only has an imagined form. The black hole is a theoretical description of a total gravitational collapse of a giant star or a group of stars. The centre is thought to contain so much matter in such a small space that light cannot even move through it or escape from it. The density is known as a singularity and it is this imagined space where Thorne situates her scheme. The form is very simple; using the basic physics of a parabola, Thorne draws a diagram for a discussion space where ideas, no matter how impossible to materialize, are physically caught. The singularity becomes a place where Thorne responds to the form with a specific situation, positing her own singular idea and imagining it as space where others can posit theirs.
But ultimately, Singularity maintains its status as a form that is part of a larger phenomenological practice that exists as a sensory experience where viewers can enter collectively. The subjective position isn’t denied, but is only possible after the idea is presented as a form — as an abstraction of an abstraction." — Jenifer Papararo, Gasoline Rainbows, CAG, Vancouver:
posted by Kika Thorne at 19.3.07
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