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"Reformation"
Vernissage Oct 29, 2009 from 6 - 9pm

“Is a picture ever material?”, James Hyde asks (us? himself?) in a nineteen-part questionnaire dating from 1998 that can be viewed on the artist’s website. Many questions are of course really meant (i.e. posed) to remain unanswered forever, and their ceaseless rephrasing and reformulating is essentially what drives the very idea of “artistic research”: how shall I put this so as to avoid a definitive response that will forever put me out of business? Hyde’s practice is motivated (obviously) by many queries, and although the above question may not necessarily be the final or even most important one, it is certainly one that has gained in pertinence and urgency over the years – years, that is, that have seen the dizzying acceleration of the dematerialization of pretty much everything in the sphere of human activity (whether cultural, economic, political or plainly social). Asking of anything that has historically been viewed as immaterial whether it is really material after all, therefore, is fundamentally a critical question, reminding us of the basic fact of the world’s irreducible materiality and physicality."

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