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Erasure by Mary Ruefle, from "Friends in Fur and Feathers", by Gwynfryn (George Bell & Sons, London, 1887).
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Jennifer Borges Foster
Young Queen Ovaries (Detail). 2007
Encaustic, watercolour, oil and mixed media on board.
From now until December 12th, the SFU Gallery presents Less is More: the Poetics of Erasure – featuring more than 20 accomplished artists.
Erasure is much in the news these days – with stock portfolio values being erased, communities buried under water by storms, candidates for office learning that the public chose someone else, or Fortune 500 companies ceasing to exist.
This thought-provoking exhibit reflects the meaning of erasure, and also conveys another side of erasure that is also in the news: the poetic and the critical. This is the side reflected in this 24-person international exhibition, which includes the first-ever installation of the entirety of Tom Phillips’s book A Humument.
The resulting poetry – or exhibit – can take many forms: paintings, modified books, vinyl lettering on walls and floor, or blacked-out government documents.
Erasure is the most serious way that playfulness has emerged in recent art. By modifying existing documents and artifacts to help reconsider their meaning, erasures provide an intriguing model for the ways in which meaning is created in the first place.
For more information on this thought-provoking exhibit, visit www.sfu.ca/gallery, call 778-782-4266 or email
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