JDR48: Response to Cellulite
Rose’s Show Hi-Vis Lo-Res at RM Gallery.
“Is it that we code this off-ramp in orange as
somehow an accident, or an accident waiting to happen, or is it that the site
itself is somehow already a type of emergency. It certainly retains a kind of
dormancy in its abandoned state. Could we not say then that this off-ramp is
pregnant with meaning, that it hosts an emergent potential. Is it in this way
that the lo-res aspect of Rose’s title refers to the unfinished quantity of the
spare bridge. Is it unrealised? Briefly sketched? Perhaps then that hackneyed
idea of it being a rib we can take to make new life isn’t so bad. At the very
least this defunct off-ramp provides a type of nourishment, both as the
motorway’s supplement, not just an exaggeration that exposes the systemic
organism it is part of — how entangled that goes, like Carl Andre’s road — but
also as something of a farce, something poorly resolved. Not something badly
planned, nor badly implemented, but a supplement sitting there, waiting — not
for absolution or an apology even — but for a kind of
resolution”.
(sold out).
