Liam Gillick Red Flow Process, 2024

The wall-mounted work is from a new body of work employing prefabricated aluminium t-slot extensions that are custom powder-coated. Tightly aligned, the brightly colored elements form a square of horizontal and vertical lines. The distinctive four-leaf shape of the t-slot extension elements is visible on the edges.

The work is accompanied by print of a unique book jacket design that features short quote by the philosopher and social scientist Otto Neurath, and, on the right, the cover proper of a book, an image of a thought bubble with a schematic drawing. This unique motif relates to the notion of a new visual language and also functions as the announcement of a potential publication.

The work draws conceptually on a standardized system developed by Neurath and Gerd Arntz in the 1920s to simply represent complex statistical information, known as the Vienna Method or, beginning in 1935, as ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education).