Found a quote from Sarah Kent in Time Out re: Peter Fraser "In [Fraser's] large colour photographs, a polystyrene cup bristling with toothpcks becomes as exotic as an African fetish object, and a wave of red lino or a plastic can filled with green liquid attest to the beauty of the discarded and disregarded".
Ah ... the goal:
Saw Robert Orchardson's Endless Facade which was interesting, given his talk to us at uni recently.
His work "frequently draws on imagery from science fiction films or work by designers or architects who engage with ways of thinking about the future" referencing Superstudio from the 1970s who proposed modular structures which stretch towards infinity. I wondered if he also found the deconstructionalists like Lebbus Woods interesting. A key reference for him is Bruno Taut (whom I hadn't heard of before) who "proposed a kind of utopian architecture of crystalline forms .... made up of endlessly repeating elements"* I really liked the way that he had changed the white cube structure of the gallery making the space into his own.
*these quotes are from the IKON gallery exhibition guide.
Marjolijn Dijkman Theatre Orbis Terrarum was also being exhibited ... I found this series of photographs of interest but the threads which links them ie "Colonisation went hand in hand with mapping" (after a paragraph about Abraham Ortelius and Theatre of the World - first printed modern atlas) .... "mapping land in those days was something similar to appropriating land. Maps create an abstraction of place .... the idea of an overview of the world, seen from a god-like perspective fascinates me but it scares me at the same time". All well and good but the images didn't correspond or give the idea of a map and seemed to me to be random and not well positioned. Maybe I will go back and revisit the exhibition and review the references to the Lunar Society which, again, seemed somewhat random.
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