Grokking Anne Bourse
<p>1. The process of « glomming » or « grokking » on to an artist’s interests, habits and preoccupations always fascinates me. It might begin because some of her concerns seem to match some of mine or — on the contrary — because she seems to inhabit a fascinatingly different world. By the act of paying attention to her work I glean or guess the artist’s original acts of attention to the world. There is something beautiful in my ignorance about an artist (because it leaves space for my personal fantasies and needs), but also something beautiful about the gradual eradication of that ignorance, a process this monograph will try to reproduce in the manner of a slow zoom towards the work of Anne Bourse.</p> <p>2. Repetition and variation — the principles of musical composition — are present in the work of a visual artist. What does she repeat, and what does she vary? Is it obsession which draws her again and again to certain themes and motifs, or merely habit? Like music, an art career unfolds in time. Time may also be present in a single work, if only by extrapolation: we imagine the labour that has gone into it…</p>
Authors: Nick Currie
Artists: Anne Bourse
Part of: TextWork
ISSN: 27269949