Art Hatje Cantz Verlag | Cally Spooner

A Tear, Engineered In 1856 By Rodolphe—The Adulterous Lover Of Flaubert’S Madame Bovary—Is Dripped Onto A Breakup Letter And Sent To The Heroine Via Messenger. “There Ought To Have Been Some Tears On This; But I Can’T Cry; It Isn’T My Fault,” He Says, But Not To Her. Then, Having ’Lled A Drinking Glass With Water, Rodolphe Dips His ’Nger And Lets A Big Drop Fall Onto The Paper, Leaving A Pale Stain On The Ink. Cally Spooner’S Monograph Documents A Large Eco-System Of Over 40 Works Which Takes The Incident Of This False Tear As A Lynch Pin, To Re—Ect On The Outsourcing, Hijacking, Erosion, Decay, Or Destruction Of Personal, Subjective Utterance, In A 21St Century Hyper Connected And ’- Nancialized Climate. For The Monograph, Spooner Describes Each Work In An Active, Present-Tense Voice, Intercut With Diagrams, Drawings, Culled And Censored Correspondence. New Essays Bring Into Focus Central Themes That Play Out In Spooner’S Transdisciplinary Performance Work.›

Cally Spooner (*1983, Ascot, Uk) Is A British Artist, Based In Athens. Her Work Is Generated Through Writing And Unfolds As Installation, Sculpture, Drawing, Sound And Performance, Which Often Incorporate Duration And Rehearsal As A Mode Of Resistance. She Has Had Major Solo Shows Across The Us And Europe.