eating at another’s table
dal 21/5/2004 al 20/6/2004
Segnalato da
21/5/2004
eating at another’s table
The Metropole Galleries, Kent
Seven artists who site work in response to the gallery's ornate interior. The exhibition explores the host and parasite relationsip that can exist between objects and their environments.
Created especially for the Metropole Galleries, eating at another’s table features seven artists who site work in response to the gallery’s ornate interior. The exhibition explores the host and parasite relationsip that can exist between objects and their environments.
The artists use a wide variety of media and strategies including installation, sculpture, collage, video and photography.
Max Mosscrop has found a lodging for his lingering fascination with the site of an isolated, abandoned yet unapproachable house - two dark models mirror each other, their haunting charge and strange lack of corruption echoed in the empty tomb of an imagined room.
Lindsay Seers blurs identities through anamorphosis, ventriloquism and the ‘vampire’s kiss’ of her mouth camera. The disembodied magic of early film and TV is returned with the physical potency of early memory: a listening in to the mystery at the heart of things.
Alice Walton works obsessively with the skin of objects. The scarified and pleated surfaces of reproduced paintings are handled with an almost surgical tact and delicacy. Elsewhere, the anaemic skeins shrouding uncertain objects seem both to clothe and feed from the host’s body.
Adam Gillam cheerfully travesties method and materials. His prolific disorders of scavenged materials betray an endless procedural interest in rearrangement at cross-purposes with any intrinsic content of these disparate scraps. The resultant hybrids are shaped by an absurd logic that confounds comfortable resolution.
Jo Addison’s small plasticine and ceramic objects achieve the intimate distance of souvenirs. She treasures the commonly passed-by and the overlooked and patiently commemorates their secrets in a painstakingly achieved mimicry. The choice of unlikely, and fragile materials heightens their sense of transitoriness.
Martin Wills seeks to unpack the ambiguous pleasures of remote viewing amid the proliferation of a technology that feeds off the desire for total surveillance. His intervention makes visible the gallery’s existing relay of security cameras.
Simon Wells operates on the periphery of things: polishing walls or silvering windows. Here his attention is drawn to the two mantelpiece mirrors. How we sense the invisible is further explored in a night video of the possessed frenzy of a wind-blown treetop.
The Metropole Galleries
The Leas Folkestone
Kent CT20 2LS
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