Hannah Bishop’s work explores the ignored and undervalued nature of the everyday, concerned with exposing beautiful bypassed entities as being what makes up the majority of our existence. Small interventions into the ordinary, a sign on the street, a faint drawing on a chair, a carefully grown weed that’s been left on a doorstep, ‘provoke tiny moments of awareness’[1]. Interested in the variety of mundane happenings and seemingly uninspiring moments the work dwells in quiet contemplation on what is right before the eyes, in opposition to aiming for the unobtainable dream that capitalist society sells us. Ephemeral and miss able the artwork is an alternative to escapism, and calls for an appreciation of the beauty of the pattern of a piece of gravel or the painterly qualities of a damp mark on the ceiling, that which we all have right before our eyes. ‘Today we are facing another economic meltdown and… Art practice will free itself again from grounded institutions’[2]. The glory of the everyday, the magnificence in the ordinary, the splendor of the mundane, the appreciation for the smaller things, is truly what we should value in light of the consequence of unbridled consumerism.
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