Ah, Um

Lundberg worked in the gallery before his show opened, establishing the particular contingencies of the Enjoy site. His practice negotiates architecture and physical space while amplifying painting's relationship with performance, which he claims is usually latent in painterly procedure. The artist notes his interest in a time-based rationalization of painting is centred on the experience of the work, claiming appreciation of the work is affected by knowledge that it would be destroyed at the conclusion of the exhibition at Enjoy.

"Painting's instant or simultaneous time becomes subject to our experience of time as passage. We can count the hours until the work is gone. As such it exists as an ephemeral experience, to be experienced not like fireworks or any other potent temporal event."

Patrick Lundberg