Title: War song
Description: BEASTS CREEPS MEN GHOULS VAMPIRES WOMEN GHOSTS - the words are painted in bold capital letters in black, florescent pink and orange, circling a spectacular image of the earth seen from space on a large circular canvas (Inhabitants, digital fine art print and acrylics on canvas, 183 cm, 2019). The words seem to encompass the planet in an ominous manner, predators circling prey, a universal warning sign to potential extraterrestrial visitors: This is what you are going to find on this planet. In his solo exhibition WAR SONG, DeWitt appropriates and detours the global sign language we normally navigate intuitively. Semantics are hijacked and recontextualized in order to question the logic of language and human behavior. A circular canvas with an image of the earth on it, has a bright orange X, painted across the planet, in each leg a word, together they spell: MUTILATED LANDSCAPE (digital fine art print and acrylics on canvas, 122 cm, 2019). The work reads like a warning not to cross the orange line for safety reasons? hazard ahead? which communicates well, until you realize that you live on the wrong side of the bright orange X.00Exhibition: V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (05.04.-27.04.2019).
Subjects: Exhibitions
People: Cali Thornhill DeWitt