XLVI Vanessa & Dominic Wood
15.09.04 – 25.09.04

During two months the Australian artists Vanessa and Dominic Wood have been working on Capri XXXXVI, the installation unites sculptural elements with paintings. Most of all, their piece is a reflection on the character of this intense collaboration. They understand this as a situation in the sense of John Rajchman's drama: a process of permanent exchange and rejecting, rethinking and transforming.
"(...) what if (...) at no time can we ever be quite sure what our bodies can yet do, our lives become, the shapes they might assume, the spatial arrangements into which they might enter - if we started from the idea that we are singular indefinite beings, held together, (...) by informal plans that are always departing from the fixed geometries of our being, opening out onto virtual futures?
(...) Then to think would always be to construct, to build a free plan in which to move, invent concepts, unfold a drama (...). Philosophies would become free, impermanent constructions superimposed on one another like strata in a city. For once the architectonic is loosened up, the twin questions that we find in all philosophy -how to construct a work, how to construct a life - acquire new shapes. The constructed work becomes less organic,
the constructed life less perfect, and the characters in the resulting drama more flexible, without univocal, roles working through provisional alliances, broken and reconciled. They then start to investigate "virtualities" unseen in the present (...) an art of necessarily temporary inquiry into what at a given time and place we might yet think in our thought, see or do in our visions or actions - an exercise in building new spaces for thought in the midst of things (...)"

from: John Rajchman, Constructions (1999)