- Venue
- The Island Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
- Ends
- Thursday, May 31, 2012
- Address
- The Blue Gate, Bridewell Street, Bristol, BS1 2QD
- Location
- South West England
Rachel Sokal exhibits her new series of ephemeral chlorophyll prints, photos printed onto leaves using only sunlight. Enter a surreal world where leaves have eyes, chlorophyll meets skin and the distinctions between plant, animal and mineral begin to blur. But be careful! The sunlight which made the images will slowly destroy them, as they hang in a glass-roofed gallery in the centre of Bristol. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. In this highly original exhibition Rachel Sokal explores the parallels between human and plant bodies, our place within changing ecologies and the effects of too much sun on living cells. Living Echo will be a rare chance to see the leaves themselves, some of them so delicate they may only be shown once. Living Echo I may be one such print; a Nasturtium leaf with the artist’s eye printed into it using the plant’s own photosynthetic structures. The human eye, our main light receptor, is printed using the plant’s own light receptors; an echo between living bodies, made with sunlight.
