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Janice Kerbel
Remarkable
‘Remarkable is a print-based work that
announces the achievements of a range
of extraordinary beings imagined in
response to the context of the fair. In the
tradition of printed broadsides and fairground
ephemera Remarkable employs
hyperbolic language and un-illustrated
texts to conjure these unique individuals.’
Janice Kerbel, July 2007
Remarkable is a continuation of Janice
Kerbel’s fascination with deception in all
its forms, the outcomes of which range
from plausible but impractical plans for a
bank heist to a cheat’s pack of playing
cards and a town designed specifically
for ghosts.
The artist’s understanding of the visual
codes that surround these activities allow
her work to exist in its own reality,
between thought and action, where suggestion
and expectation flourish. Kerbel’s
print project took 19th-century fairground
posters as its inspiration, heralding the
arrival of a series of remarkable characters.
Behind Kerbel’s diverse works lies a
facination with the possibility of realising
an impossible event or encounter.
Janice Kerbel, Remark able: Dou ble Attrac tion, Crys tal and Blindspot, silkscreen print on
cam paign poster paper, 107 x 158 cm, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
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