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It was only a matter of time before Allison Katz would realise Foundations, an exhibition that brings to the fore her continuous challenge to the myth of the artist and her containment as an autonomous voice. “There is no such thing as a blank canvas”, according to Katz. “Something is always already there, beginning with the unconscious (the ineffable). Then come the building blocks of our DNA, our structural conditions, the bodies of loved ones, the ghosts of those who left, and every painting already painted. All these forces lead one to form tastes, pleasures and fears; a self-portrait made by others. Foundations are our beginnings, the roots that lie below ground – and it is the same term (in English at least) for what might happen at the end, with the construction of a legacy.”
To make visible one dimension of this porous network of influences, Katz invites her paternal grandmother, the nonagenarian artist Edna Katz Silver, to present a suite of dynamic needlework as an integral…
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It was only a matter of time before Allison Katz would realise Foundations, an exhibition that brings to the fore her continuous challenge to the myth of the artist and her containment as an autonomous voice. “There is no such thing as a blank canvas”, according to Katz. “Something is always already there, beginning with the unconscious (the ineffable). Then come the building blocks of our DNA, our structural conditions, the bodies of loved ones, the ghosts of those who left, and every painting already painted. All these forces lead one to form tastes, pleasures and fears; a self-portrait made by others. Foundations are our beginnings, the roots that lie below ground – and it is the same term (in English at least) for what might happen at the end, with the construction of a legacy.”
To make visible one dimension of this porous network of influences, Katz invites her paternal grandmother, the nonagenarian artist Edna Katz Silver, to present a suite of dynamic needlework as an integral…
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