Ruth Hogan

My proposal for an unrealised art work is a text installation. The work would be produced from hundreds of plaster cast alphabetical letters in lower and upper case. The work will be comprised of these letters spanning from the top of the wall down to the ground, and extending across the floor to a fixed point. The text used will be comprised of appropriated texts compiled from advertisements commonly displayed in public spaces; underground stations, bus stops, train stations etc.

This work will reflect my current practice, which is an investigation into the misappropriation of meaning in language. How meaning can be subverted or misinterpreted through the rendering of its medium. I am interested in how the play on words and 'visual' inflections can indirectly negate the context of the statement. I also want to highlight the duality of meaning that can exist within one sentence, or passage of text.

I am appropriating words from advertising as a method of investigating the implicit subversive nature of the word in society today.