Liam Gillick Supersymmetry, 2025
Vinyl
Dimensions variable
All of Gillick's vinyl text works are variable in size and can be adjusted for any scale. The purchase includes the vinyl production file, and two copies of vinyl letters at the scale currently on view. Specific scaling can be made in consultation with the gallery. The work can be installed in different configurations. Two options proposed by the artist exist currently; a site-specific option can be devised in consultation with the artist.
Supersymmetry originates in a 2001 project that took place in Belfast for which the artist asked theoretical physicists from all over Ireland to explain - not answer - the 10 big questions that would advance the understanding of the universe. The questions were placed in different locations all over the city: As wall texts, cake decorations, taxi business cards, beer mats, a conference/lecture and a website. One remains in situ in the form of a question painted on the end wall of a row of houses.
Gillick's text works often draw on a strategic "logical dislogic" and on a Situationist-inspired notion of play that acts as disruption in a self-consciously complex manner. This can take the form of a dynamic of playful disruption which includes concrete references while opaquely resisting easy comprehension towards the creation of productive irritation.
A distinct and significant aspect of Liam Gillick's oeuvre, text works allow the artist to integrate more explicitly discursive elements into his object-based practice. Often the words have represented key terms in reference to larger projects, even though these connections are often hidden by their obliqueness.
In an interview the artist noted: "[by the mid-2000s] I started using text in a very precise way from this point and my work became increasingly schizophrenic. The texts started to form a dialectical relationship with the abstract works I have produced. They stand alone and at the same time they act as a challenge to the material reality of the other works. When I deploy a text in an exhibition or other location it is always an artwork in its own right."
Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin (bosons) and particles with half-integer spin (fermions). It proposes that for every known particle, there exists a partner particle with different spin properties.There have been multiple experiments on supersymmetry that have failed to provide evidence that it exists in nature.If evidence is found, supersymmetry could help explain certain phenomena, such as the nature of dark matter and the hierarchy problem in particle physics.
COMPONENTS INCLUDED IN SALE:
– 2 copies of vinyl elements at the scale currently on view
– Digital print file for future printings
– Certificate of authenticity
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– Specific scaling can be made in consultation with the gallery.
– The owner of the work has the right to print and exhibit the work in only one form in one location. Multiple prints of the text cannot exist simultaneously.
– The artist may be consulted for ideas to reconfigure the work specifically to the context of each exhibition site. When the artist is not available for consultation, the work may be reproduced in either form as it was originally shown.
Supersymmetry originates in a 2001 project that took place in Belfast for which the artist asked theoretical physicists from all over Ireland to explain - not answer - the 10 big questions that would advance the understanding of the universe. The questions were placed in different locations all over the city: As wall texts, cake decorations, taxi business cards, beer mats, a conference/lecture and a website. One remains in situ in the form of a question painted on the end wall of a row of houses.
Gillick's text works often draw on a strategic "logical dislogic" and on a Situationist-inspired notion of play that acts as disruption in a self-consciously complex manner. This can take the form of a dynamic of playful disruption which includes concrete references while opaquely resisting easy comprehension towards the creation of productive irritation.
A distinct and significant aspect of Liam Gillick's oeuvre, text works allow the artist to integrate more explicitly discursive elements into his object-based practice. Often the words have represented key terms in reference to larger projects, even though these connections are often hidden by their obliqueness.
In an interview the artist noted: "[by the mid-2000s] I started using text in a very precise way from this point and my work became increasingly schizophrenic. The texts started to form a dialectical relationship with the abstract works I have produced. They stand alone and at the same time they act as a challenge to the material reality of the other works. When I deploy a text in an exhibition or other location it is always an artwork in its own right."
Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin (bosons) and particles with half-integer spin (fermions). It proposes that for every known particle, there exists a partner particle with different spin properties.There have been multiple experiments on supersymmetry that have failed to provide evidence that it exists in nature.If evidence is found, supersymmetry could help explain certain phenomena, such as the nature of dark matter and the hierarchy problem in particle physics.
COMPONENTS INCLUDED IN SALE:
– 2 copies of vinyl elements at the scale currently on view
– Digital print file for future printings
– Certificate of authenticity
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– Specific scaling can be made in consultation with the gallery.
– The owner of the work has the right to print and exhibit the work in only one form in one location. Multiple prints of the text cannot exist simultaneously.
– The artist may be consulted for ideas to reconfigure the work specifically to the context of each exhibition site. When the artist is not available for consultation, the work may be reproduced in either form as it was originally shown.