#arthurpena

WHAT IS AN ATTEMPT? "I like to think of an Attempt as a phone forever ringing. The person calling has a clear goal in mind, but without the participation of the person being called, there is no resolution. Each Attempt is me calling painting and it never picking up. Embedded in this … is an underlying anxiety. Why isn’t the other person picking up? Are they dead? Do they not want to talk to me? Is everything OK? At a very base level, the Attempt speaks to the anxieties of the human condition, of never getting an answer. The space of the attempt is a mode of production, a way of occupying my time." - ARTHUR PEÑA