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Associate/dissociate : allusive and elusive care in Veronica Ryan’s sculpture
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dc.contributor.author | Spencer, Catherine Elizabeth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-18T09:30:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-18T09:30:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-07-18 | |
dc.identifier | 303808349 | |
dc.identifier | 97facb5b-dcba-4e54-967a-e9dc716a6609 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Spencer , C E 2024 , ' Associate/dissociate : allusive and elusive care in Veronica Ryan’s sculpture ' , Arts , vol. 13 , no. 4 , 123 . https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040123 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076-0752 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-9359-7357/work/164023802 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/30220 | |
dc.description | Funding: Research for this article has been supported by AHRC/UKRI fellowship AH/S004750/1. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Reflecting on the experience of curating Veronica Ryan’s work for the 2021 exhibition Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism at Glasgow Women’s Library, this essay contextualizes the artist’s recent sculptures in relation to the theories, philosophies, and ethics of care that have recently gained increasing prominence in artistic and curatorial practice. Drawing on the philosopher Virginia Held’s understanding of care as inherently intersubjective, it proposes that Ryan’s sculptures model a comparable understanding of caring relations through their associative yet ultimately elusive operations. Ryan is recognized for her use of abstracted organic forms, particularly seeds, pods, husks, and fruits. Since moving to New York from Britain in 1990 and developing a career between the two countries, Ryan has engaged with industrial and mass-produced receptacles, molds, and packing materials, an interest which has expanded to include fishing wire, plastic bottles, and take-away food containers, alongside textiles. Yet, although many of these elements remain identifiable, the resulting works delight in category confusion between organic and prefabricated, instigating uncanny textural effects that engender perceptual uncertainty. Their chains of allusion resist singular, fixed meanings, generating a continual back and forth of association and dissociation that constitutes a sustained meditation on care’s relational complexity. | |
dc.format.extent | 13214121 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Arts | en |
dc.subject | Abstraction | en |
dc.subject | Allusion | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.subject | Sculpture | en |
dc.subject | Social reproduction | en |
dc.subject | Support | en |
dc.subject | N Fine Arts | en |
dc.subject | E | en |
dc.subject.lcc | N | en |
dc.title | Associate/dissociate : allusive and elusive care in Veronica Ryan’s sculpture | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Arts and Humanities Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Art History | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040123 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/4/123 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | AH/S004750/1 | en |
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