"Saturated Phenomenon" Erica Grimm PhD

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Erica Grimm "Saturated Phenomenon"

Erica Grimm "Saturated Phenomenon"

Erica Grimm’s Saturated Phenomenon Series celebrates how simple mundane surfaces can open, enfold and invite saturated phenomenon.

Saturated phenomenon are experiences of givenness that philosopher Jean Luc Marion says exceed the senses, that flood, overrun– indeed saturate otherwise ordinary events. Saturating phenomenon surpass the sum of their parts; an experience of overflowing fulfillment, saturated phenomenon exceed the intentional act that generates them and is incommensurable–not measureable in any ordinary way.

The surface of steel, the porous, close–up topography of the face, the signifying surfaces of texts, maps, packing stickers, material veils of saturated colour–each trace, layer, flood, open and unfold multiple depths. The surfaces themselves invite not a dualistic opposition of surface with depth, but celebrate how the surfaces themselves suggest multiple readings. Multiple traces overlay and do not erase.

Grimm’s images juxtapose minimal planes of steel with close up faces caught between fear and joy- laughing, crying, screaming, meditating, being flooded with fields of saturated colour, seen floating through layers of texts.

The exhibition runs from April 11 until mid-May 2013, with an opening reception on Thursday April 11, 2013; 6-8pm.