Kelly Walker

Artist: Kelly Walker

Venue: Capitain Petzel

Exhibition Title: Whitney The Greatest Hits – How Will I Know: Arista 2000

Date: June 11 – August 28, 2010

Press Release:

"Boards on metal stands are used to display 1079 frames from the music video for the Whitney Houston hit ‘How will I Know’, made in 1986. From the actual length of the video, Walker has taken 1079 screen shots and printed them onto paper sheets in an arbitrary group of bright colours. These images are then stapled to boards in sequence and Walker arranges the boards throughout the gallery to form a journey through the images and space... By using screen shots from the video, Walker renders Whitney still, a series of frozen images with the narrative removed. However, the chronological installation of the images in the gallery enables the viewer to have a new narrative relationship with both the star and the work. The blank page arrives already printed with ink – the colour with which it is saturated. Once Walker has printed the pages – put them through his colour printer – an expanded field appears. Blank rectangles of colour go through a process of labour, the printing, at which point Walker starts to make choices and direct the viewer’s experience and brings Whitney into the physical world. Some of the boards are covered with blank pages, creating areas in the room where a blankness and flickering effect prevails with a reliance on the material."