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For this new body of work, Rowan Smith co-opts the operational logic of the linguistic concept ‘deixis’ in the realisation of a series of hand-carved and cast sculptures. From a distance, these renderings of contemporary cloth resemble classical sculpture in a non-specific, generalised sense- largely because they are white. Deictic words or phrases are generalisations that require contextual information in order to be understood.
Generalisations are also part of how history is often retold, one of these is that classical, greco-roman sculptures were pristinely white. This assumption has been …