By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
The Ipsum Gallery, the middle of the three along Farkas Street, has recently opened an engaging new exhibit by the artist and author Harriet Collins. “Words From Other People’s Books” consists of thirty words, enlarged to a foot in height and framed, along with title cards that indicate their source: “zephyr” from Melville’s Moby-Dick, “betide” from Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, “bobsy-die” from Scott’s Packed Tighter Together, “yeetscape” from Zhang’s Remote Possibilities. The art critic Honus Hearn, who helped organize the exhibit in a joint effort with the Forge Gallery, spoke at a brief presentation on the night of the show's opening. “The wonderful joke, of course,” said Hearn, “is that these words do not only exist in these books — if they exist in these books at all. But the artist recognizes that we are all borrowing from one another all the time and yet monumentalizing our own use of what we have borrowed, and her presentation of language in this way, single words extracted and placed within thick black frames on white gallery walls — is a perfect articulation of this idea.” Collins is the daughter of the infamous murderer Robert Bailey Collins.
The Ipsum Gallery, the middle of the three along Farkas Street, has recently opened an engaging new exhibit by the artist and author Harriet Collins. “Words From Other People’s Books” consists of thirty words, enlarged to a foot in height and framed, along with title cards that indicate their source: “zephyr” from Melville’s Moby-Dick, “betide” from Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, “bobsy-die” from Scott’s Packed Tighter Together, “yeetscape” from Zhang’s Remote Possibilities. The art critic Honus Hearn, who helped organize the exhibit in a joint effort with the Forge Gallery, spoke at a brief presentation on the night of the show's opening. “The wonderful joke, of course,” said Hearn, “is that these words do not only exist in these books — if they exist in these books at all. But the artist recognizes that we are all borrowing from one another all the time and yet monumentalizing our own use of what we have borrowed, and her presentation of language in this way, single words extracted and placed within thick black frames on white gallery walls — is a perfect articulation of this idea.” Collins is the daughter of the infamous murderer Robert Bailey Collins.
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