Heather Allen

Heather Allen masters the art of creating communicative action even in the smallest detail of situative motion and mimicry, whether
an individual woman or two or three, or even a group. The more one moves into this group the more one becomes, as if by suction,
a part of these groups (smaller, larger) although one cannot conclusively comprehend what is happening there....

(For) the processes which are intuitively attuned to one another, reflected in the mimicry, yield no discernable meaning. In other words:
The meaning remains open. Something is happening, but what is happening can shift in the one direction or in the other, can dissolve.
It is as if the group-dynamic aspect were to understand itself together with the loners as a process of self-discovery in the collective environment, as a transfer of the self-discovery into the collective environment.

 

Jean-Christophe Ammann
Heather Allen catalog text, 2002