- Venue
- The Print Room
- Starts
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, January 8, 2012
- Address
- 34 Hereford Road, London W2 5AJ
- Location
- London
Solo show of recent sculpture by Nick Turvey. ” I like cartoons, physics, parasites, shampoo advertisements, Samuel Beckett. It amazes me to be consciousness, in a body. I make objects to try and understand that, using materials like a composer uses different musical instruments. It seems to me that we understand and locate ourselves in the world primarily through a mapping or projection of our bodies, and that most of what we think of as mind is actually body. Thinking is largely feeling. My sculpture aims to physically engage the viewer with that process of consciousness emerging from structure and pattern, and examines how embodiment in flesh then shapes identity, probing the roles that the body plays in myth, propaganda, fetish and ritual. The Incarnate series began with questions about how the physical materials of the human body relate to character, as in the medieval idea of humours, since personalities are clearly born, inherited, and most of our actions are largely automatic. Meanwhile, that desperate tyrant, the self, fabulates wildly, attempting to impose its narrative. The feeling grows that, in some sense, the physical body is also a trap, a prison, in which we dream about the inevitable, impossible escape. We are both gaoler and prisoner, a blackly comic state of affairs.”
