Vanessa Holyoak

1 month ago | frieze.com | Vanessa Holyoak

In his treatise on literature’s relationship to loss and the limits of representation, The Writing of the Disaster (1980), Maurice Blanchot suggests that ‘[w]hoever writes is exiled from writing, which is the country – his own – where he is not a prophet’. For the French theorist, writing is inextricably linked to absence, erasure and exile, shaped by the spectre of what cannot be said.

Oct 24, 2024 | artforum.com | Vanessa Holyoak

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May 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Vanessa Holyoak

In Poetics of Relation (1990),Édouard Glissant writes that ‘relation struggles and states itself in opacity’. To lay the groundwork for an ethical way of relating across difference, we must first accept the opacity – the fundamental right to remain unknowable – of the other.

Oct 10, 2023 | artforum.com | Vanessa Holyoak

In “LASSO REPRIEVE,” Michelle Lopez’s solo exhibition here, arrangements of hand-twisted steel rope in various colors loom larger-than-life, hovering in gravity-defying formations that resist the limpness evoked by their velvety, braid-like texture. Liberated from the constricting function implied by the lasso of the show’s title, the ropes converge to form contingent structures of support whose apparent vulnerability belies their stability.

Jun 8, 2023 | eastofborneo.org | Vanessa Holyoak