Shiraz Akoo’s Post-Redemption Exhibition at the Pink Cabbage: Alison Woodgate Saves the Year

You thought Redemption was good?

Well, you aint seen nothing yet.

Akoo’s new exhibition is not to be missed:

He is, quite simply, and quite brilliantly, curating an empty space.

There is absolutely nothing there.

Denoting?

Denoting nothing?

Or, denoting everything?

Is there an enigma wrapped within a pink cabbage’s conundrum,

Or is there simply an empty space?

I think Akoo is pointing to the incompatibility of logic and lexis:

This empty space hints at infinity of possible creation:

Nothing is everything.

Conventional exhibitions of objects and art denote creation –

And those very acts of creation contain within themselves

The destruction of infinite possibility:

The angel within the marble turns out to be Lucifer:

To create is to destroy.

But, to reiterate, to curate an empty space is to …

Signpost the incompatibility of logic and lexis -

LOGIC and LEXIS.

Akoo provides another subtle twist on this theme

By keeping the shop door locked,

Even though there is a sign saying,

‘OPEN’.

Culture vultures have to press their noses against the shop window,

Whilst Akoo silently announces:

‘THE KINGS OF ART HAVE NO CLOTHES’.

But wait, all is not lost: Paradise is regained -

Here come Rob and Alison Woodgate,

With Indian summer, golden autumn and Christmas cheer:

So make your way to the Pink Cabbage,

For creative shopping,

For the last few months of the year.