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Primary Ingredients at Threshold artspace

Primary Ingredients
curated by Iliyana Nedkova
Threshold artspace
Perth Concert Hall, Horsecross, Mill Street, Perth
21 May – 31 August 2008

This summer, Horsecross presents Primary Ingredients, a major new exhibition at Threshold artspace which premieres five new commissions by Vuk Cosic, Alec Finlay, Clive Gillman, Katja Loher and Valentin Stefanoff showing alongside works by Perry Bard and Krassimir Terziev in the context of twelve works drawn from the Horsecross collection. Featured are sixteen artists from nine countries who employ text – anything from letters and symbols, poems and stories to books and films – as primary ingredients in their visual grammar. Their works allow us to go beyond the omnipresent debate whether text gives artists the opportunity to be more direct than they usually are with images. A fresh opportunity to test our assumptions that words have cognitive primacy in the brain of the viewer.

Artists from the Horsecross collection of contemporary media art featured include Claude Closky, Lei Cox, Dan Perjovschi, Janek Schaefer, Thomson & Craighead and Mare Tralla.

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