Jac Leirner

Whilst I was researching Richard Woods, there was a section of suggested artists to look at, this is where I spotted Jac Leirner's artwork. I ended up researching into her work and mentioning it to James, who had seen her work in The Fruitmarket Gallery in Scotland.

Jac Leirner is a Brazilian artist who makes her artwork from a limited range of everyday materials, playing with repetition, obsession and addiction. She uses the same objects over and over again, combining them into beautiful sculptures that reveal the materials poetry of the mundane.

As James told me he had been to visit, i took a particular interest in the exhibition Add it up which was shown at The Fruitmarket Gallery. Highlights of this exhibition include Little Light, a work made from a lightbulb and several miles of copper wire. Skin (Randy King Size Wired), an ethereal grid made from hundreds of cigarette papers, and The End, an installation that strings on wires all the ends of all the joints the artist has ever smoked. My favourite piece was named120 Cords, a work made from as many one metre lengths of different colour and type of rope that she could find at the time and place of making the work. I like this piece as it is really simple, and it pleases me how organised and structured the artwork was.