Isolation Room/Gallery Kit: Saturday, 4 February 2012

Martin Brief: Success
February 4 - February 24, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 6pm-8pm

Martin Brief is an artist whose recent work, long-term, absurd, drawing based tasks, explores the way that language, thought, and information relate to contemporary culture and the creation of self. In his most recent work titled Success, Brief has taken his process to another level. Defining success is an inherently subjective process. Romantic love, loads of money, eternal glory, worldly powers are each obvious markers of success. Conversely humble things like keeping a family together through thick and thin, or finishing high school can be considered as true success. Abstract moral qualities like perseverance, honor, self-sacrifice can be added to that list. But how do you define success at a more atomic level? The linguistic nuts and bolts? The etymological ne plus ultra of success? Well Martin Brief has done so... the overall effect will leave you numbed and shocked but also in awe.