Victoria Browne - Spliced
12 Jul–01 Sep 2010
Victoria Browne
Spliced -
Polymergravure prints on Somerset Velvet, 2010
Victoria Browne’s topographic prints play on locating the ever-elusive Higg’s boson and draw on 19th century hachuring techniques and the Dufourkarten - a military topographical survey of Switzerland completed in 1862 - to parody first beam events of CERN’s large hadron collider.
As part of a self-initiated project Speculative Progress, she visited CERN annually for three years to gather material in the form of interviews, data, photographs and drawings. Her work acts as a diversion from the increasingly rapid and speculative media response to socio-political events. This re-writing relies on a qualitative research methodology and ‘ an interconnexion of elements, each one of which represents the whole, and cannot be distinguished or isolated from it except in abstract thought’*.
*The Multiplicity of Conscious States and the Idea of Duration, Henri Bergson.
Victoria Browne is currently artist in residence at Middlesex University and will be exhibiting 1+1+1, an installation, performance and collection at The Belfry, St. John on Bethnal Green in September 2010.
