The artwork features a minimalistic composition, with the word "DOCENT" rendered in a stark, grayscale palette against a plain white background. The bold and simplistic typography dominates the frame, showcasing a clean, typographic-driven aesthetic. The artwork likely explores concepts of language, education, and the institutional role of a docent, or museum guide, through a visually stripped-down and conceptual approach. The artist's intention may be to challenge traditional modes of art presentation and viewer engagement within a museum or gallery setting. ...
Beveridge’s materials frequently derive from commerce sites, particularly those where we prepare and process our bodies or, more accurately, where we pay others to perform labour on our surfaces. Display and presentation are persistent themes throughout the practice. Beveridge includes found photographic imagery, cropped posters and promotional material found in hair and nail salons, alongside photograms, glass and other natural materials.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Packed Stars Dividing at Seventeen (2022), Great Pretender at Kai Art Center (2021), Live Dead World at Seventeen (2018-19) Soft Shrinking Tremor at Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2017), Eternity Anyways at Chewday’s, London (2016), Mainland at MOT, Brussels (2015), Health and Strength at La Salle de Bains, Lyon and Gold Diamond Park at Elizabeth Dee, New York (2014).
Seventeen presented a solo exhibit by Gabriele Beveridge at LISTE Art Fair, Basel in June 2022. ...
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