Fiona Banner
Full Stop
London, UK: Frith Street Gallery, 1997
19 x 5 cm.
Edition of 3 signed copies
Characterized by the artist as “the smallest neon in the world”, this full stop (or period) by Fiona Banner followed the artist’s bookwork, THE NAM [below], in which she recounted the entire plots of five films about the Viet Nam War, to create an “unreadable novel”.
The neon and lead on plastic mount work comes housed in a wooden box and is accompanied by a signed certificate.
The potential of the punctuation mark would continue to inspire Banners work in the decades to come (see next post).
“It is just a little bit of neon glass that I blew. I liked it because it is a breath encapsulated in glass, as a full stop is a breath in some ways. It represented a gap for me in terms of ideas. I wasn’t sure what to do next as an artist. After a while I tried looking at that awkwardness physically, in terms of making something of it, instead of it being an abstract pain. Also there are no neon full stops out there."
- Fiona Banner
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