cloud (installation view)
title : cloud
year : 2007 / 2008
medium :polished stainless steel, 2000 razor blades, steel wire cables
scale : 1500mm x 500mm x 400mm
edition : one of
price : on request
collection : artist
“Sometimes it also okay to leave extremely mediated thoughts hanging in the air. Greg Streak’s Cloud from his gorgeously minimal but deeply felt Accumulative Disintegration exhibition at Bank Gallery was one of the most powerful art objects I’ve encountered this year. An inverted arc, much like the blade of a herb-cutter, hung from the ceiling, it bottom surface covered entirely in razor blades. The work power exists on many layers and dimensions, but its strongest feature was a kind of inverted vertigo, the feeling of being gravitationally attracted to the blades. It would be easy to complain about the brutality of the piece, to write it off as yet another exercise in masculine cruelty. But to do so would be to ignore the fact that we live in a reality, that while full of joy, is also extremely brutalised.”
- Peter Machen
