REMARKABLE AND CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

TARIQ HUSEIN

Tariq Husein, Short Change (2005)
(2 recast ten pence coins, aluminium)
A ten pence coin was dissected by laser, and
recast to imitate a misprinted ten pence coin.
Two fake misprinted coins were produced.
One is to be displayed in a fine art context.
The other is in financial circulation, as it was
spent within a large handful of change.

I am unsure if learning is purely an additive process. Often, I think our minds rearrange things in certain ways because all potential knowledge is already there. This is why I identify systems and use a process to restructure them, allowing them to mutate.

Whether it is the finite properties of mathematics or a real situation from the everyday, the systemic qualities of these starting points are used to generate something more evolving and complex. The morphological developments that arise by engaging with a process interest me greatly.

Sometimes the arrangement of a system is physically edited. The arrangement is reduced or exaggerated to isolate moments or events from the everyday. A new form will emerge, in an attempt to isolate the significance of it’s the underlying origins.

By opening the representation of systems, I attempt to create a new understanding within them. The viewer is invited to engage with the narrative element of this process. Recent topics of my research have focused on chaos theory and quantum entanglement.

Tariq Husein, Change
(1 dissected ten pence coin)
A ten pence coin was dissected by laser. One half
of the coin is to be displayed in a fine art context.
The other half of the coin is in financial circulation
as it was spent within a large handful of change.

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