Kate Gottgens:
A String Of Signs

Comprising 12 new canvases, and a group of new monotypes, the exhibition consists of imagined scenes constructed from decontexuali-sed imagery drawn from an extensive archive of found, vernacular pho-tographs.

Gottgens interrupts an otherwise photographic sense of reality in her canvases with passages of indistinction, self-cancellation or abrasion, echoing the faded, degraded nature of the photographs that gave rise to them. In reappropriating historic imagery, Gottgens seeks to reduce time to a single moment, captured in a single frame of past, present and future.

Using intense colour and washes or veils of paint she disturbs and ef-faces her scenes and figures, resisting the fixity or certainty of object-hood and subjecthood.