"In an act of democracy we have allowed, moreover instructed, the artists to hang their own work in the space for this exhibition, wherever they wanted. However, we're imposing a curatorial structure to challenge viewers' perceptions of the work:
Dolphins
"Dolphins are thought to be highly intelligent creatures. Some believe more so than humans (see Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe on this). They are classed as a fish, unlike the whale which may seem superficially similar but is a mammal: "To answer Mrs Moran's question, 'Why aren't the fish walking now?' (Mrs Moran, Cyprus 2008), perhaps they find it more expedient to live in the sea and are more than qualified to take this decision."
"What the artists bring is the crucial element, the unexpected, the disruption. In the same way that the dolphins may disrupt this exhibition.
"If this exhibition was an animal, it would be more like a zoo. No, wait, I mean there's more than one kind of dolphin is all I'm saying.
Drawings
"What is a drawing? Or, more importantly, what does a drawing do? The drawings shown here do a great many things in a variety of ways. They do not all fit together neatly, and you may or may not impose connections or relationships onto them. The artists may or may not think about their work in relation to others' when hanging them. A messy free-for-all or considered negotiation? And will it be the individual or the whole, which prevails?
"It has come to my attention that quite a lot of this doesn't make perfect sense. GREAT.
(This text is a cut and paste collage of Cope and Moran's individual essays from the publication accompanying the exhibition)
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