If I were taller | Aaron Perkins
29 August - 4 September, 2022
Reflecting the persistent engagement with literature throughout his painting practice, Aaron’s PhD defines criteria for the classification of a painting as fiction. Drawing upon the literary autofiction of Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk, Aaron argues that this shift away from painting’s art-historical preoccupation with ‘truth’, through the explicit use of fiction as a method, allows a visual knowledge of the fictions woven throughout everyday reality to be gained through painting. If I were taller exhibition is the final outcome of Aaron’s PhD research.
