- Venue
- Chameleon Club
- Location
- East Midlands
An arrangement of thoughts on Victoria Gray’s ‘There There’
There There Turn There the re-turn, (turning downward (Catastrophe) to the ground). There Their beige copper pale in a dark space above a card shop above a café. Victoria Gray and The Horizontal arrangements of things and garments. The things explain each other, the tonal colours index pale skin, off-white, and cream nouns like rising to the top of the milk pail. Pale colours and highlights of copper and almost an invisible gold thread joining Gray to the wall. Gray gradually grounds the copper pipe is it? It lies in a composition of tights, tights, honey, Copper trousers. A Male aftershave inside a female tight leg is walked around the other objects in the arrangement on the floor. The surface floor is performing the composition of the horizontal. Actions work from the ground up. A quiet uttering of a male voice underneath a female tight. Haunted Object. Phantom Limb. Keeping her hand inside the sleeve and the Brut inside the leg makes it difficult to move. The aftershave is poured onto a cream colour cloth. Remember trying to smell it. The room contains a homage to Eva Hesse already present on arrival. The Triumph of Static:
The Horse Enters the Room.
The horse hair sticks to honey sticks to arm copper stick sticks copper trousers copper cardigan to wall. Connecting lines. Conductors of currents. Copper after silver. Common. And the low resistance. Close to rust but better. A trouserless woman holds her clothes against the wall with a copper pipe, a direct line directs us to either the woman or the wall. Gray stands on Brut poured on Beige holding copper that holds copper against Hesse and the wall.
The room contains a homage to Eva Hesse, a wall hanging sponge wrapped in beige. Gray depresses Hesse, pushes into her the familiar and the abstract. Hesse and the Horse observe the ground from above. A copper pipe and a bundle of clothes. Pliable performance actions pose subtle tasks and subtle actions against spectacle and spectator. There There Spectacle, depressed, leave Subtlety There subtly on horseback through the There There on the floor.
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‘There There’ was presented as part of Sideshow 2010, at British Art Show 7 and curated by Jenna Finch.
