Subtraction: Tauba Auerbach

(do I love it?)



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"My approach is to show that we can’t be sure that there is really a difference between order and chaos. I spent months taking pictures of my television on static—a supposedly truly random phenomenon— and patterns arose. I’ve made several drawings recently with my eyes closed and filled other drawings in based on the roll of a die, but patterns always came about. And every time I try to do something perfect and ordered I always make a mistake,and that breaks the rigidity ofthe order, and think that’s the best part. All these experiments reevaluate what is “perfect”and I think that’s a good thing, and that is what I hope my art would ask people to do. To me all of this is playful about bringing about optimism by proposing that anything possible or that things might be different than you thought they were." (T. Auerbach)