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Duration
7 April - 19 April
- Beverley J Bennett
- Laura Davidson
- Sally Jones
- Susannah King
Duration is an exhibition of four artists whose practices involve the durational. Brought together in these works are the knowledge of the physical gesture and the anatomy of space and time.
Beverley J BennettThe primary act of the mark making process later becomes a conscious act where the language portrayed in the works creates a sense of unease. This is transmitted to the viewer through the obsessive, repetitive nature of the gestural marks.
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Laura DavidsonSlipping off the wall, the rolls of paper retain a carbon memory of a previous movement, where the body has shifted back and forth in somatic actions. The viewer can regard the charcoal sequences as symbols hanging on the vertical plane of representation or as texts resting upon the horizontal plane of writing.
The marks themselves are measures of something, but of what the interpreter cannot define. They propose an incalculable geography, an ancient place described by the Greeks as Chora. The Chora is an inscribing space, an event preceding the semiotic systems, a receptacle beating a rhythm; dancing across the paper.
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Susannah KingI explore the notion of recording passages of light through common ground non-spaces to assimilate landscapes of memory. What was once real becomes imagined and constructed. The process of encapsulating time absorbs a legacy of marks to create an intervention to a place and its past, present and future readings.
Sally Jones
My work is primarily involved with the experience and interpretation of space. The images are composite, built from different experiences and perceptions of time and place. The images are built using a variety of sources; memory, photographs, film, television and fiction to form constructions that create entirely unknown fictious spaces that are recognisable though shared experience and culture.