One day I found myself thinking ‘No one would ever ask someone to paint a picture of the novel they want to write’.

Within hegemonic systems, we often have to transmute information from one medium to another in an attempt to be understood. Specifically, there is a need to translate ourselves, our labour and our ideas to text, usually focusing more on reduction than expansion.

SEO, hashtags, buzzwords, proposals, personal brand statements, bios, profiles.

etc.

To Be Seen is a set of six stickers that grapple with the challenge of having to transpose visual ideas into text-based communication in an attempt to be granted entry into institutions of art.

The stickers nod to the tension that is created between visual expression and the textual mediation required for legibility and access to curated visual spaces, education and funding. The work is a satirical skipping-ahead, a reductionist production to be slapped-up, publicly shown, and pre-emptively torn down.

‘To Be Seen’ has been exhibited in Dublin, London, Berlin, Tallinn, Belfast and Bristol.