Aesthetica magazine has published an online review, written by Alex Tieghi-Walker, of the recent exhibition that I was involved in, 'Presence-Absence' at Kingsland Road Studio. To read the full article please click here
'With absence and presence expressing fundamental stages of being, the title suggests something either very, very literal, or, as it turns out, a much more complex exploration of the everyday and the intangible....
...Swapping geometric panoramas for typography, Alida Sayer manipulates text by cutting, printing and projecting to explore the way the viewer looks at 3D objects. The largest installation at the Kingsland Studios and Alida’s first large-scale work, There Is No Beginning, which she describes as three dimensional stilled animations, shows letters and words trembling inside a large frame where the letters have been cut on to acetate many, many layers deep...
...Four artists couldn’t have combined so effortlessly: their medium and method all very individual yet somehow united in their geometry and the idea of tampering with the norm. The preoccupation with technology, communication, perception and memory is evident, and one supposes that the exhibition naming alludes to the way that the artists seem to really explore the simplicity of the everyday and the ways to reveal its possible forms.'
Extracts from the review written by Alex Tieghi-Walker, published online by Aesthetica magazine 18 June 2011
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| 'Presence-Absence' installation shot June 2011, photo © Philip Sayer |
