Unprinted I

Editor: This is Angus Fairhurst's "Unprinted I." It’s hard to pin down the date. I'm struck by the figure’s obscured presence – almost erased. What do you see in this piece? Curator: The erasure speaks volumes. Fairhurst, working in the context of 90s British art, seems to be commenting on visibility and absence. How do societal power structures determine who gets seen, and who is effectively ‘unprinted’? Editor: That's a really interesting point. So, the blank space isn't just a void, but a statement? Curator: Precisely. It implicates the viewer. We are confronted with the mechanisms of representation and the politics inherent in what is deemed worthy of visibility. The ghostly outline suggests a struggle against that very erasure. Editor: I hadn't considered that. I’ll definitely look at Fairhurst’s work differently now.