Flights of Reality
12 January – 3 March 2002
From the revolutionary theory of the asymmetrical structure of the fish brain to the permutation of form within a monomolecular universe, scientific theories provided a point of departure for the work in this exhibition.
Playful and speculative, the works created competing versions of a world forcefully nudged from its everyday axis. The exhibition oscillated between the familiar and the unknown, between revealed truths and imaginary worlds. Paralleling science in uncovering new routes of thought, and the creation of new or rival cosmologies, the work was a reminder of the ways in which we do not see the world. Or in the words of Matthew Ritchie, a ‘conjunction of the fantastic and mundane suspended in an organic delirium’.
New work was made specially for the exhibition by Avery, Ritchie, Weir and Wilson.
Artists
Charles Avery ~ Matthew Ritchie ~ Keith Tyson ~ Grace Weir ~ Keith Wilson
Supported by
Flights of Reality has been supported by The Henry Moore Foundation.
