Nico Pam Dick : L’espace éphémère
Artist, writer and philosopher Nico Pam Dick (aka Moyna/Moina/Gregoire Pam Dick et al.) is the author of five hybrid prose-poetry books, four of which include drawings and/or text pages composed as drawings. Her works explore unruly play, vagabond notations, spare or dense improvised structures and spaces—visual, translingual, sonic, conceptual. Taken together, these works belong to the shifting region that is The Demo Zones. While Dick is based in New York, where most of her art demos hide out, she also frequents Montreal, where some such demos seem less reclusive.
"An alterspace. Iterative zone to view, inhabit. Drawing it means entering. What rests by changing?
L’ébauche, l’éclat. Pour s’écarter. Reject eclipse: for now, elude hard fact.
Rebel with play to counter danger. Thus form a two-layer interval with Gurney’s install, outlook, gesture. Set
in oscillation. Mais le dessin lui-même vibre. It transceives. With minimal structure, maximal neg space. The
formal as the private, intimate. Yet open. Intimation. And not cold: delicate, handmade. Contra Antonioni? Contrast
L’Eclisse’s images of the sharp, balconied building, the stalled new building, deserted areas, with
L’espace’s empty/full designs. There, the minimal and incomplete seem harsh, ominous, if also beautiful.
Here, they try for modest, luminous. With abstract joy, as of his film’s protagonist at airfield. Geometry’s
still motion yielding other sense of moving picture. Fast and flickering. The way is to keep making. A temporary
dwelling-place. A model of a micropeace? A spacedraft’s paper architecture. To spatialize, to spiritualize the Now." [NPD]