Carly Fischer
Exhibitions
Its because we are all the same that we are blue - 2007
Carly FischerIt's because we're all the same that we're blue7 - 30 June, 2007 It's because we're all the same that we're blue is a sculptural installation of blue paper objects that focuses on constructed environments and their generic surfaces. Fischer's art practice is informed by the precarious balance in contemporary society between efficiency and dysfunction. Her installations often incorporate these two oppositional elements working in tandem, through the types of objects selected and the working processes employed. Often referencing peripheral objects, her installations involve laborious processes that mimic an efficiency-driven workplace environment. Buckets, mops, brooms, dustpans, sponges, clothes peg hangers, squirt bottles are all replicated out of the same blue, matt paper. Disparate objects are transformed into one seamless, vacant surface. In 2006, Fischer spent a working year in Japan. She notes: "In Tokyo, the surface and inner workings of the city seem to epitomise efficiency and a streamlining of work ethic. Emerging from this is a certain genericness to its surrounds. Everywhere you go, the same plastic food displays outside restaurants, the same uniform blue cleaning products, the same chain restaurants and stores work to streamline the city for efficient consumption via uniformity and inter-changeability. Complementing this is the school-enforced and generally accepted value of conformity, best stated as 'the nail that sticks up will be hammered down.'"¯ In It's because we're all the same that we're blue, Fischer takes the uniform, blue cleaning products that are one of the most extreme examples of Tokyo's desire for the streamlined. The aesthetic of such objects seems to enforce notions of 'simplifying for maximum efficiency'. Humorously, this obsessive desire for the minimal aesthetic goes hand-in-hand with obsessive hyper-production and consumption, ultimately leading to a kind of abject excess that implodes in on itself. "Taking this precarious balance of oppositions as a point of departure, It's because we're all the same that we're blue incorporates an obsessive, laborious process of re-making a potentially never-ending line of these objects, entirely out of paper. The potential redundancy in re-creation seeks to reflect on where hyper-efficiency converges with dysfunction in a continual battle to cancel each other out."¯ Beautifully constructed and assembled within the gallery confines, on the floor and against one wall of the gallery, the objects are stacked as if awaiting their next job. There is also the association these objects have to cleaning up the surface of the city, which seems to be constantly battling between haphazardness and a desire for the streamlined. As such, the installation incorporates small happenings in amongst the piled objects"¦.paper cockroaches, litter, doodlings"¦mimicking and perhaps humouring failed desires to completely contain our daily lives.
Berlin - 2009
I heard it from my friends about the things you said - 2010
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