Birdwatching (2008)

image courtesy Dani Marti, BREENSPACE, Sydney, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne and Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Glasgow, the kitchen window looks onto an open common area, a concrete yard. Sunday afternoon, it’s overcast. It’s always overcast in Glasgow…

Dani Marti’s practice is stimulated by what he perceive as challenges within the act of portrayal. He is fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to re-present it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of large-scale woven works, and videos that borrow from the language of documentary. The formal polarity that exists between these ways of working is the terrain on which he examines how in approaching the physical and mediated surface of information, alternate readings may be generated by the viewer.

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