RANA HASSANIEH : Works on Paper

29 Sep-10 Nov 2012

Overview

Rana Hassanieh, an installation artist based in Beirut, presents her first solo exhibition in London focusing on her 2D 'sculptural' works on paper. Rana Hassanieh's works offer the viewer a series of irresolvable pictorial situations, surface is put against image and image genres are put against one another in a way that sets modes of reading into dispute. Several distinct streams of informational conveyance are collapsed and in conflict: historical document, architectural diagram, step-by-step instructional illustration, and painterly marks that straddle the incidental and the expressionistic. It would seem a curious approach for an installation artist whose expansive works can only be documented in details to go about diluting the referential value of image fragments, but it is consistent with Hassanieh’s preoccupation with materiality and its limitations, and the loss that accompanies such processes.