DEGREES UNEDITED

REVIEW

Fine Art

Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2011

Reviewed by: Alice Gale-Feeny

 

Transformation of the unethical gestation 

 HYO JUNG KIM

I can’t sense the walls; get a steady footing; see a floor.

Canal boats. Shipping liners.

Reflections seem to ripple.

 

A dim lighting assumes night clubs, techno, drugs. Swanky jewellery shop displays. A jewellery shop at night even.

 

It takes me a moment or two.

I can’t tell you how long, to identify patterns in shafts of light; patterns in chunks of acrylic.

 

To walk round, to look straight on, shifts the patterns; I see them. I see them through the outer coating of glassy frosting. Liquid wets half of each acrylic block: half-dunked, demi-refraction.

 

They sit in lit cracks, in an otherwise dangerously blackened space; inside the black cube.

 

Aesthetics combine the decorative with the hallucinatory; artificiality with seascape: UV light behind quiet markings; the skin of seahorses.

 

I can’t solidify my presence, the dimensions of the space, the uncategorised objects floating.  I cant’ settle in the liquid.

 

But such concern for materials; seductive tactility, and yet the space still seems to be of nearly nothing.

 

The rigour, the pursuit, the quiet, glossy finish; these perfect rectangles.

 

A display of materials; the end of a light show over water; I’m left seasick.

 

 

Alice Gale-Feeny

 

Writer detail:

Currently studying Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, my practice combines naturalistic performance with an architecturally driven sculpture practice. Ongoing collaborations with Medium Rare, a performance art collective, have included performances as part of Hatch over the last two years. 

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Venue detail:
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street Nottingham

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