Category: Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Dolphin Gallery, Glasgow

Leah Garrett / July 20, 2015
The life of a submariner is very much a hidden one; manifestations of their curious crafts are more like UFO sightings. Rarely do we get the movie image of the inquisitive periscope turning this way and that. In the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine the Mersey mariners have a winking eyeball residing in the aperture of the periscope’s body: the sub as…

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Exhibitions

DOWNES POINT

Leah Garrett / July 16, 2015
Throughout her work, Judy Radul has articulated an interest in the idea of theatricality as a sort of repressed unconscious of the visual arts–banished by Michael Fried in his seminal text “Art and Objecthood” (1967) in favour of a transcendental ideal of “presentness” that excludes the corporeal materiality of the viewing subject. This reference is useful in describing two recent…

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Exhibitions

MuHKA’s foyer

Leah Garrett / July 8, 2015
If emotions were places, MuHKA’s foyer could be mistaken for an intersection. The first four works in this timely exhibition represent tendencies within the psychosphere, from Bas Jan Ader’s film I’m Too Sad To Tell You (1971) to the euphoric teen in Althea Thauberger’s photo Hiker’s Bliss (200l). However, it is the second pair of cardinal points that provide the…

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