Blind Juncture – Ingrid Dernee
EXHIBITION DATES: 27 AUGUST – 17 SEPTEMBER 2010
OPENING: FRIDAY 27 AUGUST 6pm
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Ingrid Dernee Blind Juncture X 2009. Image courtesy the artist.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Blind Juncture represents a distinct and important arm of Ingrid Dernee’s practice. The drawings for this exhibition investigate whether the visual tools of mask and mirror can be used as a subversion of dominant cultural ideology.
Dernee references Judith Butler’s key idea that gender and more broadly, self, is a performative action that is continually constructed through interplays with other individuals, culture, institutions and society at large. Dernee’s use of mask ‘blinds’ herself to the outside world, both as a source of refuge and subversion to reading. Within her drawing and performance works, the mask becomes a key aesthetic device and equally significant to the figure. It helps to strip the figure of any identifying features, removing context. The mask itself has manifested in Dernee’s drawings to become a stylized abstraction and aesthetic device, which is represented in a large-scale drawing and sculptural work.