Post Structural Verbicide – MA Graduation Show – UCA, September 2025
UCA, Canterbury, Sept 2025
The installation, Post Structural Verbicide, is an invitation to consider how language shapes value. In heritage sites, ancient graffiti is studied and protected, while modern graffiti on garage doors and underpasses is criminalised. The difference lies in who frames them. Similarly, artworks accompanied with dense theoretical statements can gain quicker acceptance in galleries, while equally powerful works without such framing are overlooked. With a combination of crude tags on steel, paintings, a photographic ‘textbook’, a parody ‘crit machine’, and a short film, it questions whether value depends on education, cultural capital, or confidence with jargon, and if satire can expose the absurd hierarchies that decide which art is celebrated or ignored.
Materials:
- Spray painted corrugated steel
- Oil and acrylic paintings, framed and unframed
- Photographic text book
- Short film
- Interactive “Crit Machine” (tombola tumbler)
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