LIGHT INCISIONS

Light Incisions is the beginning of a new body of work for Jancic. It continues an exploration of the constructive potential of ephemeral materials, but will this time involve the re-ordering of the gallery space using simple red laser pointers.
Jancic is interested in the use of lasers because of the sinister association with snipers and alarm systems as well as the use of lasers in weaponry. They have become symbols for the paranoid and anxious mode of contemporary existence. In contrast to this, the artist will utilise them in a more ‘civilian’ manner, as actual pointers and in this case using them to describe and draw attention to the volume and spatiality of the gallery.
Laser lights have a sense of incongruously dense materiality, considering that they are actually ephemeral and immaterial. This dense appearance will be exploited to create a structure which seeks to satirise the gratuitous scale of monumental sculpture and architecture.
For this new exploration, the artist intends to present multiple installative environments using the technique of slicing and dividing with light.
Biljana Jancic is a Sydney based artist and writer. She is a current PhD candidate at the Sydney College of the Arts and a founding member of a critical discussion group ‘The Free Association’. Recent group exhibitions include Names and Places (Curated by Ivan Muniz Reed), First Draft, Sydney 2009, Thesis, (Curated by Adrian McDonald), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 2009, Transparency Conspiracy, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney 2010, MCA Staff Show, Gaffa, Sydney 2010. Upcoming exhibitions include The Wall of Sound (apologies to Phil Spector), SNO, Sydney 2010 and SafARI (Curated by Danielle Hairs and Lisa Corsi), Locksmith’s Sydney 2010.
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