Fiona Banner: Nude
For this exhibition of new work, Fiona Banner continues her exploration of the problems and possibilities of language.
Much of the work deals with The Female Nude as a classical artistic subject, here described in words directly from life. In sharp contrast to this gentle and meditative act Banner has applied one such description to the wing of a Tornado aircraft whose brutal scale dwarfs the gallery’s domestic interior. These startling and very immediate works perform an almost complete cycle of intimacy and alienation; the dynamic between the two has been a constant in the artist’s work
Language and the written word are central to Banner’s practice, she has in the past created epic word-scapes – blow by blow accounts of war and porn films- pieces which beguile the eye but never deny the more problematic nature of the subject matter.
