Print F - Version V 1997

Editor: Here we have Ian McKeever’s "Print F - Version V" from the Tate Collection. The use of bold red and black is striking. What's interesting is how the grid both contains and distorts these colors. What do you see in how the work was made? Curator: Let's consider the labor embedded in this print. The layering of color, the creation of the grid—it all speaks to a process of construction and manipulation. How does the materiality, the physical presence of the ink on paper, affect your understanding? Editor: It makes me think about repetition and the artist’s hand. The grid doesn't seem perfect. Curator: Exactly. The imperfection challenges the notion of mass production. It highlights the artist's intervention, their individual choices. It prompts us to question the relationship between handmade and machine-made. Editor: I hadn't thought about it that way. Seeing the process helps me appreciate it more.