Dave Dyment | Hello Hello

 

Today is the final day for my exhibition Hello Hello at MKG127. Other than the painted oversized buttons, all of the works in the show are editioned. I rarely try to make topical work, but obviously COVID haunts these works about greeting, many of which are somewhat sinister (a horror film told entirely with the word hello, shady business deals sealed with a handshake, etc. etc). It continues to be coincidentally topical, with the inclusion of figures such as Chris Rock, Vladimir Putin, etc. 

I'd been collecting the handshake photos for years, possibly since seeing excellent Alexandra Mir's daisy chain project for Ringier. But the main impetus was the mondegreen of Michelle Obama's statement "When they go low we go high" - the slight slurring of her words allowing for a simple instructional on communication. 

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