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Excerpt from Frieze
Hugit Rubinstein’s panels investigate and play with the status of the frame and the thing framed to further accelerate these issues of representation. On the one hand a frame is a functional delineation of boundaries of a work, sealing its limits and providing a utilitarian means of handling and hanging a work of art. On the other hand the frame signifies what part of the work should be seen as the representation: what is enclosed. Her images inscribe the frame within the very surface of the picture, using the frame as an organising pattern of mark making and then undermining the quintessential image status of the ovoid mark by rendering it as a frame. Moreover, in assembling some of these frames from cutouts of landscape or nature photographs retrieved from calendars she slips and echoes between different sites and sorts of image production. In displacing material from its known context, making it work anew within the site of her pictures, three-dimensional spatial depth images become flat surfaces and the flat surface of the perspex contains sediment upon sediment of fragmentary moments. The two states are mutually intertwined.
Karen Burns, 2005


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