John Russell
dal 10/12/2014 al 30/1/2015
Segnalato da
10/12/2014
John Russell
Motinternational, London
Aquarium Proletarium. The exhibition presents the work of Russell, a founder of the artists's group BANK. Since leaving the collective group, Russell has worked both independently and collaboratively to produce exhibitions, publications and curatorial projects.
Glittering pools of light, bubbles of delirium, sub-troped as post-alien category 7/humanoid, deepspace cleansing operative 7S1A/Abiona (fly-head), including tentacle attachments and penis-vagina refurb, moving across the blackness - galaxy reflected in her visor. Bubbles as convex mirrors multiplied and enlarged with the reflections of perfumed jars and dust strewn with golden stars in imitation of heaven. Meat suit with bio implants. Rotating above Entrance hatch x117.
Even her eyes are flesh. She sprouts wings at her sides. Golden scales reflecting the sun. As an intensity of mimicry and acting out of the cadavers of place. Miming mime itself. Gliding upwards. An angel. Flames trembling with multiple scintillations and pearls glowing like white flowers, emitting long white spirals. As a movement across the material and the divine. Half-burned carcasses, rose-tinted by the sea, ascending by insensible degrees to the edge of the sky. Luxury and fire. Crystal. The sun's latest fires gilding the carapaces of turtles as they come forth from the reeds to inhale the breeze. Stars. And a sheet of blood flowing over the mosaics. Coral. green, yellow, blue, violet. Gleaming like splashes of milk, blue icicles, and silver dust, black flames and silver vat, pearls. Rays of the sun. Soothing.
This exhibition is comprised of the text Bruce Willis. Irigaray and the Aesthetics of Space Travel; the animated digital film Aquarium Proletarium; the backlit digital print, Midnight Ecstasy; the sculpture Transformational Joy; and the painting, Unique ciphers of violence and desire, (all works 2014).
Image: John Russell
Opening: 11 December 2014, 6 – 8pm
MOT International
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