City of Air Rights

Propositions for Merton

FT Static

Independent Traveller

Cliff Runways

Chorus Steel Works

Mary Yacoob’s work is based in drawing and visual languages, for example, repetition, mirroring, geometry, line and number.

These drawings are part of a series of works entitled Propositions for Artworks.

In these projects, Mary  Yacoob produces  drawings and collages based on or influence by images from text books and newspaper cuttings or photographs she has taken of particular sites.  The drawings propose large scale installations which are absurdist, humorous, impractical, or impossible. They are often inspired by the architecture or site in which the exhibited drawings are being shown.   Some internal logic of the found image or site is twisted and exaggerated to produce an absurdist proposal for an alternative reality.

Thus the drawings play with the nature of drawing itself and how it’s linked to the playful thought processes of the artist and viewers.  The drawings also invite the viewers to consider what is possible to imagine.  When confronted by a drawing that is essentially a visual rendering of an idea or proposal, does the viewer relate only to the physicality or aesthetic of the drawing, or do they move beyond that and take up an invitation to imagine what reality would be like if the idea in the drawing actually came alive.  Or perhaps the viewer might find the idea to be insufficiently radical and be spurred on to think of their own alternative reality.

Mary Yacoob’s work using drawing and visual languages to observe, figure out and communicate. What follows is the filtering of observation of everyday life through systemic techniques such as repetition, geometry, and extrapolation.  She appropriates symbolic visual grammars from architectural plans, geological maps, diagrams, and alphabets.

Some of her work involves documenting the minutia of daily life in diagrammatic form.  In other work, she creates systemic works about architectural spaces that question ideas of urban planning and public art through proposals for often unrealisable interventions.

For more information on Mary’s work see: www.mary-yacoob.com

Sea Parting Red

Doodle City of TEXT