BARGEHOUSE Bargehouse (Oxo Tower Wharf) Bargehouse Street South Bank London SE1 9PH
16 March - 2 April 2006
Open Daily 11-6pm
The ability to perceive is essential to how we function as human beings, but subconsciously we become accustomed to our senses fitting in with our environments, and our perception on how we see the world becomes routine. Betrayed by the Senses explored our senses - which we take for granted - through the eyes of 30 diverse and very individual artists using the medium of photography, painting, sculpture, animation, video installations and performances. The exhibition aims to expand our sensory perception and challenge our understanding between the truth, reality and deception.
Chris Eckersleys' ‘Note ‘C’ is a series of 16x modules, each playing the note C in a variety of instruments. The instrument sound is activated when movement is passed over a sensor situated on the top of each of the modules. The audience can weave through to play an orchestra of sound.
To give the illusion of a miniature theatre the artists Tessa Garland & Marcel Baettigs' 'Believe It Or Not' perform endless tricks, staged in a front room and projected in a small shoe size box built in he recess of the wall. Play, humour, trickery, magic and entertainment are all important factors of this work.
Kate Welsfords' 'Jewellery' contained handmade garments designed to restrict the use of our sensory receptors which were displayed within glass units and accompanied by accessories and photographic prints, documenting how the items were used.
Rita Parentes' sculpture 'Traction' consist of suction pads attached to steel chains and metal hooks suspended from the ceiling. A plate of glass with a 5 milimetre gap hovers over a sea of eggs. The suspense between the suction pad pro-carelessly holding the glass over the eggs gives the sense of unease and tension, while the springs offers stability, as if the glass should drop onto the eggs, the eggs would cushion the fall and the plate of glass lands intact on the springs.
The clever use of digital photography in Rik Pinkcombes' landscapes prints, are photographed in a to capture subjective but also natural occurrences of urban life and transferred into scenes that resemble staged manufactured scenery.
Housed within its many intertwining rooms and amongst the raw untouched backdrop of the Bargehouse the exhibition showcases many creative and intriguing artworks that people of all ages will enjoy. We would like to thank everyone who visited the exhibition and hope that you enjoyed the show. Please feel free to read the visitors comments.
You will be able to view the artwork showcased in the show by clicking onto the sub link artist Information.
