(Mapping the quotidian from two perspectives)
An Article By Kevin Henry, where he discusses the works of Richard Wentworth and Jane Fulton Suri.
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Richard Wentworth commenting on his Making Do and Getting By collection and the everyday objects which are the subjects of these photographs: "It doesn't take very long to realize that some are warnings, some repairs, some reminders, some adjustments. And some of them are kinds of subsections: you would use a word like jamming and others are wedging. There's a hell of a lot of resistance to gravity, and I think my work has a lot to do with gravity..."
Henry makes a note-worthy comparison between Wentworth and Fulton Suri: "Warnings, repairs, reminders, adjustments—activities performed with greater awareness (less thoughtlessness). Duct taping a winter coat to a damaged car fender requires forethought, regardless of its effectiveness... His images depict desperate acts of repair, while Fulton Suri's images focus on humans intuitively extending their bodies or the objects around them to service their needs... Their taxonomies nonetheless intersect: adapting and adjusting are not so far apart, while warning and reacting are clearly related."
"So Richard Wentworth might not be a hunter, but like Jane Fulton Suri and IDEO, he is a gatherer. Situations may find him, but he still must choose which to photograph and, by photographing them repeatedly, patterns begin to emerge."
"Jane Fulton Suri's and Wentworth's views bracket the quotidian in interesting and curious ways, helping to explain a world that is complex, because, as Richard Wentworth points out: 'it contains unthought-of variables of which the chief component are humans who, you know, wear things out in surprising ways, or abuse things, or simply don't conform to the rules that are laid down.'"
"Coincidence is a way of making sense out of our nonsensical world, according to writer W.G. Sebald..."
"Images validate coincidences just as verbal descriptions expand on their meanings."
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