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But then her art has never
resided in the sum of its
parts; it’s more about going
with a vibe: an intimation of
all that art can be, which
would be pointless to try to
contain within anything as
earthbound as definition.
Photographs like The Hand That
Holds the Desert Down (2002)
or The Vibration Station
(2002) invite us to reverse
our way of thinking in order
for an act of creation to take
place. The first is an image
of a sphinx, its massive stone
paw perhaps not resting on the
sand but keeping every grain
from flying into the ether;
while the other is a church
organ shown upside down, as if
hanging from the ceiling.
Donnelly’s most notorious
piece remains her arrival
at her 2002 exhibition at
TRANSFORMER:
Casey Kaplan astride a white
TRISHA DONNELLY
stallion, from which she
decreed the surrender of
‘Polymorphous’ or
Napoleon. Questions as to why
‘inexpressible’ are the
she should address the status
words that people usually
of a long-fallen European
reach for when approaching
emperor arose only to be
Trisha Donnelly’s art, which
obscured in the hazy poetry of
is one reason why a survey
her pronouncement: “With this
of her work from the past
I am electric, I am electric.”
decade, opening this month at
These are deceptive, simple
Philadelphia’s ICA, sounds so
gestures with which the artist
tantalising. Just what kind of
is able to do nothing less
brain-frying experience would
than unsettle the fabric of
it be to see her accumulated
the universe: with Donnelly,
output? What wisdom would be
it seems, the more you look,
gleaned, for example, from
the less you know.
drawings realised in careful,
Skye Sherwin
delicate cross-hatchings
representing an aura or
TRISHA DONNELLy
18 JANUARy – 30 MARCH
delineating a void? Or from
ICA, PHILADELPHIA
equally obscure choices of
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photographic subjects, such
as a menacing black wave or
Untitled II (Peralta), 2007, c-print,
159 x 112 cm, edition of 5. Courtesy
a headless swordsman?
the artist, Casey Kaplan, New york,
and Air de Paris, Paris
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