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Arcadia Missa is pleased to announce Hannah Black’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Titled _HUSH MR GIANT_—an anagram of “human rights”—the show consists of six circular oil on canvas paintings, based on the rotating word-play disks in Duchamp’s surrealist film _Anemic Cinema_.
The spiral text on each painting derives from six articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), contorted into nonsense poetry. “Everyone has the right…” becomes “even yearners to riot…”, and so on. This “sounds-like” process uses homophony to make associations between words. Homophonic connections that produce random meanings within a language are part of “the deposit, the alluvium, the petrification that is marked by the way a group handles its unconscious collective experience… the death of the sign it carries.” (Lacan, 1974). In our era, the Declaration’s liberal vision of universal humanity—never real, but ideologically powerful—has been publicly slaughtered and replaced by an open…
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Arcadia Missa is pleased to announce Hannah Black’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Titled _HUSH MR GIANT_—an anagram of “human rights”—the show consists of six circular oil on canvas paintings, based on the rotating word-play disks in Duchamp’s surrealist film _Anemic Cinema_.
The spiral text on each painting derives from six articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), contorted into nonsense poetry. “Everyone has the right…” becomes “even yearners to riot…”, and so on. This “sounds-like” process uses homophony to make associations between words. Homophonic connections that produce random meanings within a language are part of “the deposit, the alluvium, the petrification that is marked by the way a group handles its unconscious collective experience… the death of the sign it carries.” (Lacan, 1974). In our era, the Declaration’s liberal vision of universal humanity—never real, but ideologically powerful—has been publicly slaughtered and replaced by an open…
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