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The Passion of Phrike
Solo exhibition
Kunstverein Zink, Vienna, AT
2024
About “The Passion of Phrike”
In the exhibition “The Passion of Phrike,” Wordcel presents herself in her most abstract acrylic form. Six paintings, same size, evoke an ornamental feel—a sensation amplified by the painted edges of the canvases, adding volume to the otherwise particularly flat surface. These images come from the experience of bouncing—seeing while in motion.
It is not directly related to bouncy castle art like William Forsythe's White Bouncy Castle or János Vámos' Bouncy Castle Painting and it is certainly not about building an accessible inflatable. The works open up a discussion about bodily boundaries, the accessibility of art, playful interaction within unstable environments, neurosis, materiality, precision, taste, the act of naming abstract ideas…after all phrikein in Ancient Greek means to shudder (in an heighten emotional state)—an emotion that permeates Wordcel's pieces.
Each painting is accompanied by a title, presented like a plaque above the work, marking the “stations of the Passion of Phrike.” The titles can be read as a location, a feeling, a thing, a name, a misremembered dead language vocabulary, springing from agitation, coming from a five y/o.
Kunstverein Zink, Vienna, AT
2024
About “The Passion of Phrike”
In the exhibition “The Passion of Phrike,” Wordcel presents herself in her most abstract acrylic form. Six paintings, same size, evoke an ornamental feel—a sensation amplified by the painted edges of the canvases, adding volume to the otherwise particularly flat surface. These images come from the experience of bouncing—seeing while in motion.
It is not directly related to bouncy castle art like William Forsythe's White Bouncy Castle or János Vámos' Bouncy Castle Painting and it is certainly not about building an accessible inflatable. The works open up a discussion about bodily boundaries, the accessibility of art, playful interaction within unstable environments, neurosis, materiality, precision, taste, the act of naming abstract ideas…after all phrikein in Ancient Greek means to shudder (in an heighten emotional state)—an emotion that permeates Wordcel's pieces.
Each painting is accompanied by a title, presented like a plaque above the work, marking the “stations of the Passion of Phrike.” The titles can be read as a location, a feeling, a thing, a name, a misremembered dead language vocabulary, springing from agitation, coming from a five y/o.