Art I like: Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner uses words, often hand written, which describe bodies or films or scenes, rather than depicting them in line or drawn or painted image, such as this...

Leaning Nude, 2006,  graphite on paper,  67" x 89"photo copied from ArtNet website

Fiona Banner
You gota lot of nerve 1998
© the artist. Photo: copied from the Tate website here.

Break Point, 1998

This is one of a series Banner made in which she writes a vivid and detail description in words of the action of a film (or films).  This one is based on the chase scene in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Point Break (1991).

She has just been chosen in a public vote for display in a new exhibition in the    Gallery in ....

There is a piece on tho in today's Sunday Telegraph, the link is here.  This includes the following explanation of her work: 

Banner transforms and contains the nail-biting and seemingly endless chase into an arresting landscape of words. As the distance between pursuer and pursued closes, the space between the letters and lines of text stencilled on to the canvas in hazard red correspondingly collapses, until the climax of the chase ends in a crash of words at the bottom of the canvas. But significantly, the chase does not reach completion - when the pursuer finally catches his human quarry, he lets him get away.

I rather like some of her work, which is playful but also thoughtful, and makes you read the words carefully (hard to do when they are written by hand, in wobbly capital letters, high up on a wall in a gallery installation).