 | David Abecassis Platform: The Hole February 15 - March 24, 2001 | ||
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This work is a celebration of life through light. It is an inquiry of light as energy, meant to give viewers a tingle. The bottom of each ring opens up like a plastic toy you may find as a prize in a bag of children's candy. These rings are based on a type of ring once used in wedding ceremonies. To me they represent a union. In the pile they are physically linked to each other. The linking of many of these rings suggests a complex web of interaction. Links simultaneously stretch out in different directions. An accumulation of connections between people is part of what forms a community. Each ring has a little house shape on top that signifies its union to a domestic space. But rather than a stable domestic space, this pile suggests one which has not been fixed in place or time, one which once disrupted becomes portable.
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The rings, placed in a pile, suggest a collection of memories and family
histories that have come to rest here, discarded. They are artifacts which have
accumulated over time, each with its embedded private stories. This pile is a
repository for the amassment of personal belongings.
David Abecassis
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David Abecassis Pile, 1999 polyester, stainless steel 33 x 15 x 15 cm photo: Jonathan Sheinbaum David Abecassis
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David Abecassis completed studies at the Ontario College of Art then went
on to York University where he received his M.F.A. He currently lives, works and
exhibits in Toronto.
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