THE JAGO GALLERY 77 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ
20th September - 5th October 2008
Open Daily: 12pm - 6pm Late Night Opening: Thursday 25th September & 2nd October 12pm - 9pm
Systems have become a underlying factor in our lives, whether we realsie this or not. It has become part of our everyday routine, our post modern rituals. To some of us it is part of our mundane background and the contemporary existence we take for granted and to others it is significant in establishing complex structures and arrangements. It is quite possible that our realization of such formations that helps us perceive an understanding our own disposition.
'Quantifying Play' highlights the use of
systems in its use of communication and function and how the viewer
perceives it. Technology has evolved over the last decade, so much so
that it has enabled artists' to work in ways that had seemed previously
impossible. It has opened up possibilities of communication and
interaction that places the viewer directly in the fold of the artist's
concept and vision.
Through contextualization or even subverting these
systems through imagery and aesthetics in such a way, it opens up
possibility to form meanings and perceptions from a stand point that we
may have never considered before. Viewing art has become more of a two
way responsive experience, reflective of our consumption for
interaction within the social, technological arena.
With the element of surprise around every corner and each installation
working hand in hand, the observer can engage in a personal encounter
with the artwork and appeal to the playful consciousness of the inner
child and its discerning receptivity to create an interpretation of its
own.