
SIRIUS, 2020 - Jacqueline Mesmaeker
about this work
This edition combines two elements – a digital Barite print installed in an embossed space on a heavy cardboard paper, accompanied by a silkscreened assemblage of text.
The text – which the artist calls ‘a cascade of words’ – consist of parallel columns of words in which each column jumps back and forth around a central letter. But rather than contextualising the image, this assemblage of freely associated words clouds our reading with a multitude of low and high cultural references. It is unclear what the accompanying image exactly depicts, though there’s a clear cosmologic reference through the title. Sirius is part of the constellation Canis Major and is the brightest star visible from any part of Earth. As is often the case in Mesmaeker's practice, this work is about making the overlooked visible, about framing our gaze and generating meaning.
Sirius is a limited edition that Jacqueline Mesmaeker produced in the context of artlead’s public project A Temporary Monument for Brussels.