Richard Reddaway

Untitled (pornography)

3 August - 21 August

Showing on the West side Wellington artist Richard Reddaway brings us his new work Untitled (pornography). Reddaway questions the object and the idea of ‘objectness’, as well as space itself, thereby continuing his line of exploration into non-linear models of time/space structuring. This line of inquiry is intended to create models that could be useful in an attempt to understand apparent dichotomies, such as between the individual and society, and other oppositions in which ‘many’ conflicts with ‘one’. At the Blue Oyster Reddaway will be continuing to develop a project that he installed at Show (in Wellington) in February. The inquiry will be specifically focused on restructuring representations of the body that were originally made for voyeuristic pleasure, working with paper material sourced from magazines, ranging from soft-core pornography to fashion.

In the artists own words:

The intention of this project is to investigate some of the mechanisms used in pornographic representations of the body in order to better understand how pornography “works”. It involves the development of an operation, or set of operations that "lower" imagery, rendering it more (or less) pornographic. At Blue Oyster I intend to present an installation of cut, folded and assembled paper objects that will infect the space of the gallery in ways analogous to a virus infecting the body.