Exhibition

MIRA GOJAK: DISTANT MEASURES

Margaret Lawrence Gallery

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Install image of blue sculptures in a gallery

The lengths of wool that Gojak has wrapped around forged linear forms, when added together, aims to roughly equate to the distance between the earth and where the sky’s blueness disappears into darkness. The earth’s outer atmosphere can be measured from a birds eye view above the stratosphere. With this perspective, the blue sky can have a limit, but on the ground how does one make sense of this? Gojak has stated that in enacting these measurements she is trying to index those immeasurable distances between what we think we know and what will remain unknowable. In these works, the quest to reach ‘blueness’ is embodied not in creating an expanded and continuous field of blue but in the quotidian process of wrapping wool around discreet forms that mutter through their legibility.

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