The two main subjects I will be discussing in my thesis are inscription as a trace of the process of writing and erasure as an additive subtraction in painting in regards to my own work. By establishing a relation between writing and its opposite erasure, I examine the meaning or writing that loses its narration and becomes unreadable. The duality of the intertwinement of content and its loss causes the alienation of the author, which in turn causes the artwork to simultaneously exist in the space of identity and distance. Contextualization of the process of painting as a looping process establishes the painting as a space of intertwinement of two parts of a split subject. Construction of the painting form through additive subtraction exhibits erasure as an act of establishing a concurrent presence and absence, fullness and emptiness. Simultaneously, based on Beckett’s principle of Literature of the Unword, it establishes a form of art which negates itself. The trace of writing and the trace of erasure add an overview of the question of construction as well as destruction to my work.
|
