Winchester School of Art
MA Sculpture Interim Show
7 – 16 March
Highligts
Kaleidoscope by Linda
Persson
A kaleidoscope is defined as any complex pattern of frequently changing
shapes and colours. In the optical toy the pattern is made of tiny shifting
pieces of coloured glass, in this video projection however it is the disjointed
arms and legs of synchronised swimmers which endlessly recombine into
symmetrical patterns. Any ambitions towards the Busby Barclay school of
choreography are however swiftly negated by the understated method of
presentation. This video is projected into the bottom of a paint splattered
bucket which sits taped at and angle on a cardboard box. The projector
peers downwards into the bucket from a hastily constructed wooden lectern
– all the workings in this piece are visible, there is no illusion,
nothing is behind the scenes. The piece points away from the viewer, you
have to walk around the back and look in to see the projection and this
adds to the jolt you feel when you see the jewel like fluidity of the
image within – so incongruous with its setting.
Untitled
works by Natalie Sanders
In one easily missed corner of the gallery ceiling hangs some sort of
small plastic bird – it could be an albatross it could be a pigeon
all reference to species or scale are removed by its isolation. The tips
of the birds wings are embedded in a plaster block which hovers over the
creature like a bad mood. The bird is trapped in mid flap – it’s
wings ensnared it hangs in the air only because the plaster block does
– a sad mockery of the plastic avian’s imaginary potential
for flight.
|