Enclosure Marion Coutts Dan Hays Eyal Sasson Gabriela Schutz Stephen Walter Sarah Woodfine |
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![]() Marion Coutts
Everglade 2003 |
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7 March - 13 April 2014 |
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the animal by its artful instincts sets itself apart, preserves itself;
the human being in all conditions fortifies himself against nature in
order to avoid its thousandfold evils and enjoy only the measure of
goodness it accords; until he finally succeeds as far as possible in
encasing the circle of all his genuine and acquired needs within a palace,
in holding all the scattered beauty and happiness spellbound within
its glass walls, where he then becomes softer and softer, substitutes
joys of the soul for joys of the body, and his powers, with nothing
disagreeable to tauten them to natural uses, melt away into virtue,
beneficence, sensibility. Enclosure speaks of containment and control. It is the physical or conceptual creation of a bounded territory or zone. Physical or pictorial acts of enclosure imply an extreme selectivity, where what is out of the frame is separated by a void space, implying a hermetically sealed microcosm free from outside influence or interference. Ideas of separation and entrapment are mirrored by fantasies of sanctuary and escape – the suspect enchantment of a snow-dome, the utopian dreams engendered by a map taken as reality, the encapsulation of a romantic ideal within the impenetrable bounds of a picture, a package, a glass box, a screen. The artworks displayed within the house present various manifestations of this troubling dialectic through a confusion of historical and contemporary species of object, forms of vision technology, and genres of image making – between still-life and landscape, museum case and picturesque scene, marvellous proximity and alienated distance. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah Woodfine How to grow an apple tree 2014 plant stand, plant pot, pencil on Saunders Waterford paper 150 x 32 x 32 cm |
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![]() Eyal Sasson Riverbank 2013 acrylic on paper 80cm x 120cm |
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Gabriela Schutz Your 5 a Day 2014 unique framed coloured etchings (Plums, Corn, Kiwi, Broccoli, Mushrooms)
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![]() Stephen Walter Nova Utopia 2013 graphite on paper in hagioscope frame 148.9 x 186.8 cm |
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![]() Stephen Walter Nova Utopia 2013 graphite on paper in hagioscope frame 148.9 x 186.8 cm (detail) |
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![]() Stephen Walter Nova Utopia 2013 graphite on paper in hagioscope frame 148.9 x 186.8 cm (detail) |
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![]() Stephen Walter The Woods Where Them Live 2014 graphite on paper 33.5 x 41 cm |
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![]() Stephen Walter Of This Wood Man Shall Know Nothing 2014 graphite on paper 33.5 x 45.3 cm |
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