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David Clegg

David Clegg, Archive Destruct (installation view) 2005 Litmus Project, Massey University, Wellington

Venue: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, de la Facultad de Artes, de la Universidad de Chile (MAC).

Lives and works in New Plymouth, New Zealand

David Clegg’s project-based practice has consistently posed questions relating to the privilege of certain knowledge systems, in particular the power of the canonical archive in its various manifestations. Subverting the construction of the archive Clegg presents fragments of real time sound and image and invites the audience to reinterpret how such information is to be organised and used. The validity of the archive becomes both subjective for the member of the public who chooses to engage but also reflective of the specific locale in which the artist finds himself collating the material. David Clegg is a New Plymouth / Wellington-based artist who has exhibited in New Zealand and abroad since the 1980s. Recent exhibitions include The Imaginary Museum, Christchurch Art Gallery; Come-in: Interior design as a contemporary art medium in Germany, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; and The Imaginary Museum, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington