I of II
15/02/2023 - 22/02/23
Featuring artists; Ellie Antoniou, Marco Bizzarri, Sonya Derviz, Xiaochi Dong and Tim H H Lee.
‘Recursion’ is an exhibition exploring the journey of self-realisation, a view into the re-discovery of a bygone state and a search for higher reasoning through the exploration of a ‘lost room’. We will delve into the uniquely human experience of losing sight of this search for illumination: only to later realise the urge to refind this space in our absence of meaning.
This space, this room, is hidden away and forgotten, collecting dust but remaining dormant in the background. The room simultaneously serves as a symbol for the passage of time and for the ongoing search, the reach towards something more. Recursion is an introduction into this first half; the unearthing of this space, once hidden, now found. The space will have a physical morphing, a movement of installation, a sense of journey that is revealed once viewed again.
The works that will be on display reflect a universal struggle to find one's place and the search for a higher knowledge.
The use of material, form and imagery are built around memories and stories told through each artist's practice, revealing an overarching aesthetic and thereby conceptual relationship.
Through visiting and revisiting both stages of the show, we invite the viewer to embark on this journey of rediscovery.
Short Story's wrote by Kauis Owen
II OF II
08.03.23 - 22.03.23
A split from the road, a second impression, a path to wonder.
Revisiting the themes, works and location of Recursion: Excursion is a return trip -a sidestep in time- to a room that was never lost.
We will find ourselves in a transfigured space, full of light, a pristine reimagining of the prior dereliction. This psycho-spatial reframing will prompt a novel appreciation of the works, a recontextualisation through a wholescale upheaval of surroundings.
At the beginning, middle and end of the recursive loop: The room is the prime mover and the steady state, it exists as an exteriorisation of the internal resting place. Time has ceased and the journey is embodied, it has become codified in the very fabric of the self. We may recognise the search for what it is, that the yearning was an excursion from a truth that we already possessed, one that can only be revealed through a return trip.
Short Story wrote by Kauis Owen
Excursion creative writing
Excursion
Recursion
