HANY ARMANIOUS : Frequently Asked Questions

11 Mar-21 May 2016

Overview

Southard Reid is proud to present Frequently Asked Questions, Hany Armanious’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show comprises of work from three recent series’, where Armanious continues his practitional meditation on the processes of making and presenting. This can be traced from selection, a moment of recognition usually of an object or remnant close to hand, through his reproduction of it, and eventual re-presentation. Works in the show are either meticulously cast facsimile in resin : small, rolled blobs of Blu Tack, scattered over gallery walls in a loose following of old nail marks, clustered house candles in partially burned states, or carpets digitally printed in enlarged scale from scribbles made by Armanious’ four year old son. Each series involves Armanious’ assertion of a break in the function of the original, near invisible in its identified functionality and ubiquity, through processes of transformation awakening both the object and the act of viewing.