Bonnie Begusch at her studio. Photo© Maxime Ballesteros
Through variation and repetition, Bonnie Begusch investigates how information can be lost, obstructed or recombined to construct a message. She uses video, photography and text to explore the process of perception. In Means and Ends, an endless array of exclamation marks, semicolons, slashes, and other signs are displayed against a white background. The camera constantly shifts up and down along the sheets of paper, creating a sense of disorientation that stands in contrast to the punctuation marks’ purpose, which is to give regulatory cues for logical text processing. Using imaging techniques that have their roots in radical abstraction and experimental film, Begusch creates representational systems to explore how meaning materializes within prescribed boundaries. In a practice that recalls McLuhanian communication systems, she puts the transmission of data at the centre of her work, in order to focus on the processing of the content by the recipient.
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