Unseen
Duo show, Cromer Studios, London, August 2023
Work Shown:
Album 01, 2023
25 12cm x 12cm semi-gloss prints, dimensions variable
Crescendo, 2023
Digital image, dimensions variable
Feedback, 2023
Documentation of performance, 2 min duration
A grid of images neatly arranged. Their subjects less ordered, traffic signs, industrial buildings, a train platform, a drain cover, cardboard packing. No one populates the pictures; the only sign of human life is in the things we have made. Buildings and objects stand silently, centered in the frame or with the slight blur of having been captured in motion. The images reflect how a world in which we were to suddenly disappear could look. A freeze-frame on life now. The images implore us to be observant, discard hierarchies of value, and look again at what we construct. A painting on the wall of a men’s bathroom in South London, an Amazon warehouse off the M1 near Milton Keynes, a blank menu in a café on Borough High Street, become new and beautiful.
Five drawings on the wall, partially erased, faded but glowing. Sigil-like forms, geometric nets or webs of lines and curves emanating from a central point. Punctuated by small darker dots at regular intervals. Radiating energy, they act out an unknown purpose, do they broadcast a message? Do they activate an action at distance? Do they contain power? Their forms shift yet stay alike, mapping out a language we are unable to decipher.
Two people are having a conversation on the phone. As they speak their voices echo, doubling and screeching with feedback. They seem to be trying to meet each other somewhere but haven’t yet found one another. Back and forth they ask and answer questions, they seem lost physically and spiritually. Their worlds loom around them, as their locations synchronize and de-synchronize, they notice details of their surroundings. A large industrial building in a field, a face-like pattern in the grain of some wood, a plaque on a wall, a photograph from the past. Overlapping and repeating each other’s words they seem confused by how the world works, how to live in it. Memories return to them in a kind of answer, before both concluding that whatever they’re looking for is nearby, just down the next path.
Duo show, Cromer Studios, London, August 2023
Work Shown:
Album 01, 2023
25 12cm x 12cm semi-gloss prints, dimensions variable
Crescendo, 2023
Digital image, dimensions variable
Feedback, 2023
Documentation of performance, 2 min duration
A grid of images neatly arranged. Their subjects less ordered, traffic signs, industrial buildings, a train platform, a drain cover, cardboard packing. No one populates the pictures; the only sign of human life is in the things we have made. Buildings and objects stand silently, centered in the frame or with the slight blur of having been captured in motion. The images reflect how a world in which we were to suddenly disappear could look. A freeze-frame on life now. The images implore us to be observant, discard hierarchies of value, and look again at what we construct. A painting on the wall of a men’s bathroom in South London, an Amazon warehouse off the M1 near Milton Keynes, a blank menu in a café on Borough High Street, become new and beautiful.
Five drawings on the wall, partially erased, faded but glowing. Sigil-like forms, geometric nets or webs of lines and curves emanating from a central point. Punctuated by small darker dots at regular intervals. Radiating energy, they act out an unknown purpose, do they broadcast a message? Do they activate an action at distance? Do they contain power? Their forms shift yet stay alike, mapping out a language we are unable to decipher.
Two people are having a conversation on the phone. As they speak their voices echo, doubling and screeching with feedback. They seem to be trying to meet each other somewhere but haven’t yet found one another. Back and forth they ask and answer questions, they seem lost physically and spiritually. Their worlds loom around them, as their locations synchronize and de-synchronize, they notice details of their surroundings. A large industrial building in a field, a face-like pattern in the grain of some wood, a plaque on a wall, a photograph from the past. Overlapping and repeating each other’s words they seem confused by how the world works, how to live in it. Memories return to them in a kind of answer, before both concluding that whatever they’re looking for is nearby, just down the next path.
