Tara Downs for STATE

Tara Downs for STATE
Material Test introduces images of film gels, cellophane, mirrored Mylar that have gradually dissolved their material base, becoming molten shapes and forms that undulate through foreground and background. French critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud in his text Postproduction considers that “precariousness is at the center of a formal universe in which nothing is durable, everything is movement: the trajectory between two places is favored in relation to the place itself”. The particularities of the path between these two ‘places’ – the original material and the image as transformed state – becomes open to curiosity and consideration.