Toba Khedoori - Making insignificant objects important

Making objects into more than just objects. Abstracting them from what they were before and turning them into something different.

 Untitled (Rocks)

 Untitled (Logs)

Alienation. Khedoori's 'canvas' consists of large sheets of unframed paper, slightly overlapping and stapled directly to the wall. These may reach up to three metres in height and span as much as eight metres. There is no human presence but, like a stage set for an impending drama, the possibility of action is always there.

Ways of displaying objects

Thomas Schutte

Francis Upritchard

Charles Avery Stone Mice - Making insignificant objects important

A Stone Mouse is: ´part animal, part mineral, whose heart beats only once every thousand year´
To identify a Stone Mouse: ´one must identify its central axis, being the line which runs between its two most extreme points (A and B), the distance AB being its length. This line must be occupied by the stone at all
points along it (so a banana-shaped stone would not qualify)´
Stone Mice need to: ´possess je ne sais quoi´
Sadly once taken from the Island and: ´subject to the harsh light of Reality… the Stone-mouse becomes merely a stone that looks like a mouse´

Julius Bissier c.1965

Joint Watercolours

Interesting quotes

Allan Kaprow's ''Environments''. In 1958 at New York's Hansa Gallery.
''Notes on the creation of Total Art.''

'In the present exhibition we do not come to look at things. We simply enter, are surrounded, and become part of what surrounds us, passively or actively according to our talents for 'engagement', in much the same way that we have moved out of the totality of the street or our home where we also played a part.'

'What happens when nothing happens?' Paul Virilio interview on Georges Perec 2001

Italo Calvino 'the lightness of thoughtfulness [that] can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.'

Ropes