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ICONS & MONUMENTS   Aug 1-Dec 1, 2014

by Guest Artist Nora Belal

This exhibition is as much and exploration of concept as it is material. Artificial flowers and salt, two ends of a spectrum, or maybe more of a venn diagram. The Flowers: imitators of life in a relentless and static play. A stand in for life that despite its garish and unconvincing demeanor asks that you consider it a worthy stand in, and often we do. The Salt too is unchanging but in a more subtle way. Salt is a building block, a nurturer also capable of incredible preservation or destruction. 

The frame for these two materials is a marriage of their primary conceptual importance. This frame or glue, or bridge, or connection, is simply: rope. I’m attracted to using rope in the work because it is tough, it is organic, and violent and safe. There are seems and strands that alone are weak, and together are very nearly indestructible. It is a bridge, a trap and a release.

I’m interested in paths and transitions, in icons and monuments and the way we say the things we either don’t know how to or didn’t know we needed to say. The intersection of the materials are bound in my mind and personal narrative but I hope their presence doesn’t beg for an explanation from me, one always hopes that a work will speak for itself, and not always say the same thing to every viewer. The work will be exposed for 3 months to the weather and will document the transition of shape and form of each piece. 



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  • ABOUT US
    • 634 Art Studio
    • HISTORY >
      • SixThreeFourPGH 2014- 2018 >
        • Season 2018 Schedule
        • Season 2017 Events >
          • Get Your Body Into Yes Workshop
          • Heartbreak Beat Night
          • Underlined Passages- Tandi My Dicafi Tour
          • Recycled & Reclaimed
        • Season 2016 Events >
          • Sammy Miller and The Congregation
          • Underlined Passages with Absolution Key
          • Alba Flamenco
          • Tango Night
          • Confessions w/ Joanna Lowe
          • Mosey Jones & The Skates
          • Boudoir Noir with Johanna Chastek
          • Siamese Twins
          • The Westerlies with Johanna Chastek
          • TITUS ANDRONICUS
        • Season 2015 events >
          • Opening Weekend
          • Tracing Outlines Screening
          • Billy Castle-- thereisnosuchthingastime
          • Sammy Miller & The Congregation
          • Campfire -Fall/ Winter Installation
        • Summer 2014 events >
          • Icons & Monuments Aug-Dec 2014 >
            • Opening Night of Exhibit
            • Day 3
            • Day 5
            • Day 14
            • Day 18
            • Day 22
            • Day 30
            • Day 40
            • Day 45
            • Day 62
          • Rachel B & Billy Castle Perform July 3, 2014
          • WWW. Exhibit March 2014- June 2014
          • Eden Exhibit
  • Virtual Art Gallery
  • Duval Crest
  • Social Media
  • Contact