Ruark Lewis
Sydney, Australia
Constructed of five hundred and fifty 55 gallon drums, this architectural scale installation explores
the limits of language and its capacity to adequately convey meaning in the cross-cultural context. Drawing
on the post-colonial texts of the Indain post-colonial theorist Ashis Nandy, Lewis isolates ‘abject
words’, puzzling statements, euphemisms and aphorisms whose meanings are unclear or uncertain.
Transcribed as sound and form, the abject text is transformed, animated, and offers itself in an experimental
relationship between (non)sense and poetry, creating a new space for cross-cultural engagement.
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Ruark Lewis, EUPHEMISMS FOR THE INTIMATE ENEMY
photography: Dean Goodwin
EUPHEMISMS FOR THE INTIMATE ENEMY, 2008
Multimedia Installation
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
C3 Mowat Avenue at Liberty Street
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