Lorienne Lotz

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‘Not written in Stone’

Commune.1 presents Lorienne Lotz’s first solo show in Gallery ll.  ‘Not written in Stone’ attempts to find an open-ended post linguistic space, a space for the inconceivable and a space for all possibilities. Lotz will be re-installing a previous installation ‘Headstones:  A grave disservice’ (2013) in the gallery. The installation is made up of 16 sandstones; each of these has been censored by black oil paint.  ‘Headstones’ is an explicit commentary on the Secrecy Bill and works as a point of departure for the rest of the exhibition. Lotz’s new paintings question the power of language; how we are 'immersed in the culture of the statement, [and] that this language is coercive and forces a separation between the senses and understanding'. (Martinez, 2012)

The paintings encourage ‘liquid thought’ (Elkins, 2000) by merging daily nuances, proverbial sayings, the media and political events into a stream of consciousness that settle as a combination of abstract and formal marks onto her large canvasses. Through her paintings Lotz extends a re-connection with the viewer’s primordial narrative and in the process attempts to manifest the unconscious and the visceral: a place where the hand seems to know more than the head.

13 March 2014 - 16 April 2014