
Spotlight Artist
Corinna Ray
South
Artist Statement
In a landscape defined by not knowing, she’s wearing a dress
(not to belong). But with a radical uncoupling of cause and effect,
the spectrum is reset. Footsteps on the gravel pierce the
stillness of the sleeping body—make it start. It is their function or
nonfunction that distinguishes them.
Tennis balls, felt as hollow bodies, signify more than a
consolidation of objects. Already a fragment of the world,
insert them effortlessly into the existing system of receding
orthogonals—a crashing of the party. Today the air that the balls
thud through is close and heavy. You are positive it is interested
in you.
No attempt should be made to represent the tennis courts.
Only the sound of the balls. Their endeavor was not without
historical precedent.
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