South African artist Greg Streak positions himself between different disciplines, working in sculpture, video, installation and documentary film making. His work is aesthetic and even minimalistic. Where most artists tend to specialize in one area, Streak is able to control almost any medium he turns to.
Streak's new work will be on display at the Soledad Senlle Gallery in Amsterdam, from June 5th till July 17th. The exhibition is a solo show, entitled Nothing Lasts Forever, and is an extension of the work from his solo exhibition Accumulative Disintegration in 2008.
“I am interested in the invisible space between a title and the accompanying work and how the work is transformed by the title and the title by the work. At best the works are supposed to float away into abstraction, multiple truths and fantasy and then the title functions as this cruel anchor that nails it to the ground.” thus Greg Streak.
Titles are critical in Streak's case. Nothing Lasts Forever is, as the title suggests, a search into the impermanence of things. One of his new works, called Biopsy, is a 1.2m diameter sphere with a thickness of 100mm and floats approximately 50mm off the ground. It is constructed from 60 000 wire ties into an intensely woven spiral. The title alludes to the fact that something is potentially wrong, but you don't know exactly what, just like a real biopsy.
"I sense that we live in a time where there is a lot wrong. The works are intimate reflections, metaphors for this abnormality and what I see as social haemorrhaging.”
Greg Streak: Nothing Lasts Forever
June 5th - July 17th 2010
Soledad Senlle Gallery Amsterdam
Written for BLEND.
“I am interested in the invisible space between a title and the accompanying work and how the work is transformed by the title and the title by the work. At best the works are supposed to float away into abstraction, multiple truths and fantasy and then the title functions as this cruel anchor that nails it to the ground.” thus Greg Streak.
Titles are critical in Streak's case. Nothing Lasts Forever is, as the title suggests, a search into the impermanence of things. One of his new works, called Biopsy, is a 1.2m diameter sphere with a thickness of 100mm and floats approximately 50mm off the ground. It is constructed from 60 000 wire ties into an intensely woven spiral. The title alludes to the fact that something is potentially wrong, but you don't know exactly what, just like a real biopsy.
"I sense that we live in a time where there is a lot wrong. The works are intimate reflections, metaphors for this abnormality and what I see as social haemorrhaging.”
Greg Streak: Nothing Lasts Forever
June 5th - July 17th 2010
Soledad Senlle Gallery Amsterdam
Written for BLEND.
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