Oblivion

Anish Kapoor's three large stones stand as sentinels for an experience that is known, but lacks language. Their stolidity and natural roughness, which is undeniable, is counterpoised against their smooth, soft, and searching interior spaces. An indifferent, mute, and imperturbable material is transformed, on one side only, into a space of contemplation that is introspective and vulnerable. The shift is a subtle one, and it is performed from one object to the next as well. A triangular vibration is established between and among the stones, activating spaces and producing a set of tones of colors and spaces that materialize an abstract choreography. Kapoor's stones embody the way in which place is always both specific and general, microcosmic and macrocosmic-and the way in which we understand it, through a poetics of the body as it moves in and around its other selves. As known becomes unknown and the dark becomes light, an apparition takes place.
Text written by Curator Bruce W. Ferguson and Vincent J. Varga for the exhibition catalog.