Considered by many to be the ultimate abstract concept, the infinite has compelled many modern and contemporary artists to try to capture its essence and relate its central meanings to modern life. Infinite Egress presents artwork from two recent moments of heightened interest in the infinite: the beginning of the 1970s and the last half of our own decade. Both moments represent a departure from a grandiose sculptural approach and geometric graphical paradoxes common to modernist representations of the infinite. Borrowing from visual languages associated with fashion and commercial display, entertainment and spectacle, spirituality and transcendental experience, optics and architecture, the artworks presented here consider the concept of infinity in relation to the body and its relationship to space. Infinite Egress—egress meaning here to depart, to emerge—considers metaphors of unending and limitlessness with an often wry sense of humour and awareness of our contemporary media-saturated environment.
Jordan Strom