[no title] 1967

Editor: This untitled print by Eduardo Paolozzi features a collection of colorful shapes and patterns. It feels like a visual catalogue of some kind. What stands out to you about this piece? Curator: I’m drawn to the silk-screen process itself. The layering of colors, the slightly misregistered lines – they reveal the hand of the maker, disrupting any illusion of seamless reproduction. It begs the question: what is being mass produced and consumed here? Ideas? Images? Editor: So, it’s not just about the final image, but about the labor and the process of creating it? Curator: Precisely. Paolozzi is highlighting the materiality of image-making in a consumer society. He compels us to consider the means of production behind even seemingly abstract forms. What do you think this process reveals? Editor: I see it now—it’s a snapshot of culture in production. Thanks!