Occupied by the immediate surroundings which have mattered to her in the past, Helen Waddington has exhibited a diverse range of work over the last 11 years, from large prints, photographic pieces, mixed media, text, drawing, sound and installation. Her work has explored subjects such as memory, history, space, and being. More recently her ideas have depicted the world as found, discovering the mundane facts which create the information that communicates the world to others.
This collection of work explores the communication of knowledge through language. How definitions of so called facts can not always be trusted and how we can not expect to believe everything we are told. Closer examination of these works will show that everything should be questioned and experienced in order to know the truth for oneself and know then that one can not retell it. As Wittgenstein stated
“The limits of language mean the limits of my world.”
Wittgenstein, L Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) (5.62)
This collection of work explores the communication of knowledge through language. How definitions of so called facts can not always be trusted and how we can not expect to believe everything we are told. Closer examination of these works will show that everything should be questioned and experienced in order to know the truth for oneself and know then that one can not retell it. As Wittgenstein stated
“The limits of language mean the limits of my world.”
Wittgenstein, L Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) (5.62)
These works represent the findings and explorations of a character named I. who is a diver with a submarine. He has no memory and creates an existence through objects. These are his findings, stumbled upon, analysed and sorted into categories which inform I. of who he might be.