MONOCULTURE | A Recent History

Jimmie Durham finds objects and materials and uses them to makes associations, transforming them into something else. The artist’s gesture, like Duchamp’s signature on the urinal (often mentioned by the Durham in his texts), converts these found elements - here a piece of stone whose shape could resemble a camel’s head - into artworks. It is a “kind of human craziness”, describes Durham, ”the phenomenon of things reminding us of, or looking like, other things.”[full text here]