Published by Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium, 1997. This suite of prints each consists of a series of words printed in all capital letters. The first...
Published by Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium, 1997.
This suite of prints each consists of a series of words printed in all capital letters. The first six have words printed only around the outside of each sheet, the next four have words in cross and x-shapes, the following four have words spaced out throughout the whole leaf, and the final two prints have the words running down the page in a centered vertical column.
The texts in the presented works have no one specific narrative or point of departure. Barry has dispersed the words across, over and beyond the surfaces. The arrangements, juxtapositions, and proximities of the words give further opportunity not only to read the words but to read INTO the words to think about what the relationships may be. In some, the reflective quality of the mirrors and mylar reflect imagery and colors in the space, as well as reversing, repeating and spotlighting various elements of the room. How much is on purpose and how much is open to chance is forever unknown. The known, the unknown and the grey area between are key to equally examine in Barry's work. In order to do this, one must also equally examine the general, the personal and the universal.