Cloud Machine
Clara Clark is the youngest ever recipient of The Mark Tanner Sculpture prize, throughout the summer I was her assistant in her Hackney studios. Which resulted in a solo show at The Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, Hoxton. Clara Clark makes kinetic constructions on an ambitious, impressive scale. She interlocks subtle wit and illusion with macho constructions and mechanics which culminate in an interaction between illusion and materiality. She focuses on what we all look at; clouds, rollin hills, romantic vistas and creates it anew: we are suddenly given a view through a viewing point which creates a narrative of being 'elsewhere'.
Mechanical Sea
Her concern is to repeatedly pull us back to the basic tenets of perception: “In my work the sculptural form is an extravagant tool for producing a live, three-dimensional image. Mechanics and practical elements are left visible in order to preserve the idea that the experience has been constructed; the scene is no more than the materials it is made from, but simple triggers work on the imagination and cause unexpected physical sensations relating to scale and position in space. I’m interested in determining how far removed a representation can be from its source and still be believed in.”
I assisted in creating much of the works that are in the show which is on until the 18th of October, go along!
1 comment:
i love dem rollin clouds i do
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