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Salon
des Refuses [exhibition of rejects]
Over the past few years I have been
applying for artist residencies, sending out portfolios to galleries for
representation and entering art competitions. After being rejected and ignored
numerous times I am left with feelings ranging from utter despair to anger and
rage. I feel utterly dissed by the art establishment, the academy.
The rejections I have taken very
personally and the feelings I’m left with need a creative outlet other than
elaborate suicides or genocides. Salon
des Refuses sits with uncomfortable feelings of rejection, fear, anger,
rage, frustration, powerlessness, marginalization, exclusion, being ignored, terror
of poverty and the tension or complex of feelings arising from a gut wrenching need
for external validation and approval [realizing this erroneous belief ]
and still needing to forge a living.
Salon
des Refuses stands for and sits with the
marginalized.
Key to understanding:
Salon des Refuses:
An exhibition in Paris
in 1863. This show was assembled after protests by artists who had been reject
by the official academy.
Every year the academy would have its
official salon [exhibition]. That year two thirds of the work was rejected. Noticeably
some of the early Impressionists; work which later became to be seen as the
vanguard of the avant-garde. Acceptance into the official Salon ensured an
artist commissions and social acclaim.
Green suit:
In film Chroma key green is traditional used
as a colour which can be edited out in post-production, this means that
something else can be ‘Photoshopped’ in. In this case ‘Photoshop’ any marginalized
person.
Yarn/narrative:
Yarn is made from tearing away margins
of documents from various art galleries, or events which have led to rejection
[e.g. documents for application for residencies].
The marginalized.
Sherbet coloured dildo cable needles; fuck it.
Sites of performance:
Outside venues/places of rejection on First
Thursdays [social event during which galleries remain open until late in the
evening].
Duration:
Performed over a year, marking all
seasons and weather on first Thursday of each month.
