Publications
Current and archived a-n publications
Subscriber resource
On the cover
The Glass Parallax by Samual Dowd.
The Glass Parallax (commissioned by the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne for the exhibition 'Lost Horizons') is an installation and super-16mm film that references twentieth century visions of the search for an 'earthly paradise' through aspirational sculptural forms and movements. The modernist seaside architecture of the De la Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, provides a stage for sequences of 'future workers' in the act of making and communing with resonant forms against the horizontality of sea and sky. Drawing on sculpture and interior design from the arts and crafts movement onwards, alongside archive photography and film, Dowd interweaves the representation of objects and moving image in an effort to release what might be termed 'the mirage of things' – that is the shimmer that persists between subject and object. Dowd's work can also currently be seen at Kornhaeuschen Gallery, Germany in the solo exhibition 'Of Forces Unseen, of Sight Ascending'. This exhibition comprises of a two-part sculptural installation, room sets designed specifically for the gallery's distinctive display-case architecture that draw on ideological notions of the artist as a creative force. These staged...
. . . to read the rest of this resource
and access all Knowledge Bank and Publication articles subscribe online - from only £6.
If you are a subscriber please login here.