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Strange Days and Some Flowers
Storey Gallery, Lancaster
13 July – 3 October
Following a £3.5 million facelift, the nineteenth-century Storey Institute has been modernised and rebranded. Now a northwest hub of that fashionable oxymoron the creative industries, the vertical banner outside loudly announces 'Strange Days And Some Flowers', the first floor galleries' re-launch exhibition. The Storey's website notes that the exhibition has no overarching theme or "curatorial thread". However, as if to distance itself from the necessarily prosaic operations of the offices beneath 'Strange Days...' concentrates on disrupting the normality of the quotidian; works displaying either wilfully disquieting spatial conundrums or contemporary examples of the fantastical. Dominating the Gallery 1 space is Graham Hudson's architectural intervention Planning Your Exit For Best Value, a nine-metre high lattice work of painters' scaffolding – both a skeletal redrawing of the interior and a directionless maze – obstructing and framing paintings and free-standing sculptures. The construction's title and the impression that angry sub-contractors have recently downed tools suggest a certain suspicion of the antiseptic ground floor foyer and its adjacent bureaucratic...
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