Recently I visited an exhibition titled ‘Materials for 2018’ (2010-2017) in Bristol’s Spike Island gallery by the Artist Iman Issa, who’s work deals with personal and collective memory, the relationship between the two and how they can be communicated through objects and language.
her piece seen above on the top left ‘Material for a sculpture representing a monument erected in the spirit of defiance of a large power’ (2012) subverts what you would usually find and instead gives us a sculpture abstract and different from the title text on the wall.
What i find interesting about her work is that there is a simplicity to the way a piece is structured (the minimal aesthetic of the sculpture and the text of the title on the wall), whilst having entry points into the work as well as having an abstraction of meaning allowing audiences to potentially grasp the meaning from these works and possibly apply their own meaning onto them, which Iman Issa has done herself, by combining collective and personal memories and abstracting them and joining them together.
Scott Clark Artwork 