Hughes’ investigation has centered on rare books and objects in the collections that reflect on seemingly contradictory ways of understanding the physical world: either through a perpendicular logic in which mathematics and rigid rules define order or a more sensorial irrational approach which has the potential to transport us beyond language to a point where materiality speaks for itself. Hughes posits these alternative approaches in her work, and brings them to an internal dialogue. She toys with what she interprets as interdependent states, with chance and the idea of the possible, indeterminacy and systems of order. In her new works false opposites are reevaluated, reconciled, so that chance systems navigate new geometries, order negotiates with disorder, the rational with the irrational.

Rowena Hughes' Liquid Library catalogue is a derive, between the exhibition and her work table. The reader navigates in spatial artworks, archival material, details and excerpts from final artworks, and has the chance to glimpse in Hughes's former studies. The animated artistic catalogue aspires to function as a fleeting paper mo(nu)ment for the art-making-curating-designing-assembling endeavour.

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