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“You are after wisdom and it’s crushing.”[1]
There is progression in this place, but no progress – a sequence of steps rather than always moving forward. Starting in the first gallery of Kunsthalle Winterthur, hundreds of containers line the walls, displayed on a continuous acrylic glass shelf, bearing pots filled with paint and collaged with the printed titles: “Camera” / “Months months months months” / “daddy no caps” / “Prizes”. In the time of making the show, Wills emptied and cleared out all the paint she had in her studio. Before content is pre-content, Wills says. Pre-content is the level of speaking that is like milk. Getting to this level could be like trying to get back to a condition of childhood or the formation of a sexual impulse or witnessing a death. To a state of being that is open to the world but not informed by society. A monochrome painting cut in two hangs in the first space too. It stands for what the pots are not do…
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“You are after wisdom and it’s crushing.”[1]
There is progression in this place, but no progress – a sequence of steps rather than always moving forward. Starting in the first gallery of Kunsthalle Winterthur, hundreds of containers line the walls, displayed on a continuous acrylic glass shelf, bearing pots filled with paint and collaged with the printed titles: “Camera” / “Months months months months” / “daddy no caps” / “Prizes”. In the time of making the show, Wills emptied and cleared out all the paint she had in her studio. Before content is pre-content, Wills says. Pre-content is the level of speaking that is like milk. Getting to this level could be like trying to get back to a condition of childhood or the formation of a sexual impulse or witnessing a death. To a state of being that is open to the world but not informed by society. A monochrome painting cut in two hangs in the first space too. It stands for what the pots are not do…
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