Mirror Mirror@Jerwood Space
Mirror Mirror Jerwood Space
Private view; Friday 5 January 2007 6 - 9pm Exhibition; 6 - 27 January 2007
Sista Pratesi, Sophy Rickett, Thomas Haywood, Darren Marshall
‘Mirror Mirror’ is an exhibition of four artists coming together through their search to depict the moment of transformation. Whether prompted by an object, a gesture, a landscape, or an incident, this moment marks the transition from a previously singular perception of reality to one of multiple possibilities. Describing these scenarios and triggers, the artworks explore avenues that propel the intellectual and emotional thought process.
Sista Pratesi’s paintings imagine the doors of perception available through time travel. Time and place are being transformed in semi-abstract fractured spaces, and landscapes that mirror themselves. The viewer is caught in the layers of time, temporarily split between two parallel worlds.
By exploring the polarities of light and darkness, of what is revealed and what remains hidden, Sophy Rickett’s photographs play with feelings of expectation and projection. The scenes depicted are on the threshold of transformation by a sense of drama that is evoked but never confirmed.
Set amidst a community of expatriates on an idyllic island, Thomas Haywood’s photographs explore themes of revelation and reflection over a lifetime of negotiating the conflict between fantasy and reality.
In Darren Marshall’s paintings, figurative fragments of limbs, objects and gestures sit in a void. Fetishistic, violated, and mute, the reading of these spaces is in flux, emphasizing the viewer’s capacity to evolve the philosophical, poetic, and artistic narratives that they imply.
Sista Pratesi has had solo shows in London and Italy, and was awarded the Abbey Fellowship at the British School in Rome, 2002.
Sophy Rickett’s work has been exhibited across the world, and is the subject of a monograph, published in 2005, by Photoworks and Steidl.
Thomas Haywood has had solo shows in London and is currently doing an MA at the Royal College of Art.
Darren Marshall has exhibited in group shows in the UK and Europe, and recently a solo show in Graz, Austria.
For further information : www.jerwoodspace.co.uk
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