Caline Aoun: Concrete Layers

Grey Noise presents the first solo presentation of Lebanese artist, Caline Aoun, in Dubai.

Concrete Layers is composed of a series of site specific printed works on Negative PermaJet transfer paper, as well as a large installation work in concrete, which show the artist’s continual interest in muting and or inventing objects and materials, so as to reawaken us to new possibilities of envisioning space.

The installation insists on a return to our bodies, to the ground beneath our feet, to the room that houses us, but does so through the slipperiness of the image’s surface, that space of otherness within which we seek to catch a glimpse of ourselves, the same image surface reflecting the piles of numerous small concrete accropodes, playfully interrupting and making us re-think images as object. These concrete accropodes, famously designed to resist the action of waves on breakwaters and coastal structures, have been greatly reduced in size in order to fit their rock like and landscape appearance inside the gallery space.

Caline Aoun’s work is a focused series of experimental correctives, inversions, and resting places in a historical moment of peaking visual noise. This is done not out of an ideology of urban environmentalism, but by playfully posing the question of what happens when this noise becomes total? Ubiquitous waste, image saturation and the exhaustion that follows, the numberless ways in which representation has failed us, these forces converge to form new baselines of experience, newly informed silences, dark and blank spaces for us to reflect upon.