Derek Liddington
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    • Exhibitions (2012-2025)
      • Their horizon was ...
      • 2022/2023 The trees weep, the mountain still, the bodies rust
      • 2018, After, before, yesterday, meanwhile, now, you, me, those, the others, right and left
      • 2017. the body will always bend
      • 2015. Reclining Nude
      • 2015. Flesh, Marble, Leaf
      • 2016. Why am I unable to represent
      • 2016. Weighted Dancers
      • 2015. It wasn’t until
      • 2013. Every moment
      • 2013. Modern Love
      • 2012. Today a Legend Died.
      • 2012-2017. Repeated Forms
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Exhibitions (2012-2025) > 2016. Why am I unable to represent

Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes?, 2016

Art Athenia with 8eleven gallery

A project exploring the possibility and impossibility of remembering objects and reaching goals. Throughout the duration of the fair a dancer strives to extend his hand as far as his body will allow overtop a platform of clay. At night, the artist recreates daffodils from his memory of an Ellsworth Kelly painting.

A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)
A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)
dancer / air-dried clay
2016
2. These are actors, acting as workers, who are certainly not artisans. They could only collectively realize the column, which they made. A column, under any other circumstance, would be different.
2. These are actors, acting as workers, who are certainly not artisans. They could only collectively realize the column, which they made. A column, under any other circumstance, would be different.
video
2015
A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)
A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)
performer - air-dried clay
2016
Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)
Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)
air-dried clay
2016
Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)
Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)
air-dried clay
2016
© Derek Liddington
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