Analogical Change #1

Painted in muted tones, Martine Poppe’s Analogical Change #1, 2013, depicts a downcast man seemingly obscured behind a diaphanous veil of white. Poppe painted Analogical Change #1 on polyester fabric, which produced the atmospheric and indistinct colours. ‘It is important,’ said Poppe, ‘that every development is grounded in practicalities. The limitations and potential of a material crates a framework that I can challenge and react to. It could be something as simple as one of my photographs needing permissions in order to be exhibited or as complicated as wanting to preserve the translucent quality of a material whilst interacting with it using non-translucent materials. Either way, when I discover a way forward, it creates a dialogue with the material.’ The titular analogical change refers to language acquisition and the manner in which pairs of words are used to aid the assimilation of new vocabulary, yet Poppe’s white covering suggests that such analogies in fact shroud the truth.