The critical effect of these works, the confounding of our expectations, is based on the latent discrepancy, the almost absurdist relation, between image and text, between engagement and indifference. They are as much a joke about the historical conundrums of artistic technique, as they are about social emancipation or creativity and the unconscious. This complexity of intention and effect is the radical strength of the work.

Ian Wallace
Denise Hawrysio and the imprint of engagement and indifference
(excerpt from SFU catalogue)

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