JOHNNIE DADY
AN UNCERTAIN OBJECT
19 Oct – 13 Nov 2011
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- Johnnie Dady, “Barrow”, 2010, Wooden chair, cardboard, steel, L90 x H80 x W42cm
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- Johnnie Dady, “In anticipation of a signature touch (light applause only)”, 2011, MDF, aluminum, steel, L230 x H180 x W100cm
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- Johnnie Dady, “Provisional vehicle for walking on water”, 2011, Cardboard, plywood, wooden dowel, bolts, tape, L180 x W55 x H260cm
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- Johnnie Dady, “Rough trade”, 2011, Wooden chairs, wedges, L88 x W60 x H100cm
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- Johnnie Dady, “Tape work”, 2010, Gum tape, steel pin, L19 x H12 x W14cm
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- Johnnie Dady, “Unknown Vessel”, 2010
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- Johnnie Dady, “In anticipation of a signature touch [drawing]”, 2011, Digital print on architects drafting film in 2 sections, 155 x 240cm
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- Installation view of “An Uncertain Object” at GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.
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- Installation view of “An Uncertain Object” at GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.
JOHNNIE DADY | AN UNCERTAIN OBJECT
Artist Statement, 2011
A small group of works that use known objects to test or imagine alternative / new ideas of function. The works playfully undermine or at least unsettle our usual idea of a particular function and by extension the meaning of an ordinary thing, using it to propose, or at least hint at, another functional possibility. The works are most importantly a vehicle to show human desire for and imagining of the improbable or idiosyncratic. The works are proposals or prototypes for things I would like to see, but somehow they avoid being useful. Another way to see this work is as collisions of two known things but the curious hybrids remain at odds with both; an uncertain object.
- Johnnie Dady