The UCL campus is awash with curators, gallerists, artists, students and friends to see the work of the soon to be alumni of Slade. The final year cross disciplinary show, which takes up the entirety of the Slade, shows off the work of the Postgraduate Students. The majority of the work is of a high standard, however it is the sculpture and new media artists that truly stand out.

Katie Paterson’s works, Earth-Moon-Earth and Vatnajökull, for example, both stand out for their complimentary resonance of the concepts of reflection and loss. In the former, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, after being sent and reflected off of the moons surface in Morse code is played back, complete with ‘absorbed’ data acting as pauses and rests, during the composition.

Another grand piece that shows both a flair for subtlety and brilliance comes from Danish MFA sculpture student Christine Clemmesen. Christine’s work utilizes the room, strategically placing and mirroring object and sculptures of different mediums, creating a coherent resonance that one rarely sees at a final view. For example one particular part of the white gallery wall has been plastered and buffed to sheen; barely noticeable to the careless viewer, which is mirrored by a large roll of paper coated in black ink.

In the middle of the room, a large spiked black wooden structure looms, echoing the angular hand drawings mounted on the adjacent wall, which in turn, mirror the ashen structure precariously placed upon a beam above the entrance to the space. as well as the plaster ‘Blob’ placed upon a stool that reflects the only bit of colour in the exhibition. A photograph of a knee is stuck to the wall, which shows a mole, which mirrors the spot on the pebble balancing on the knee.

The exhibition/installation plays with the assumptions of binary oppositions, whilst illustrating multiplicity in reflection, undermining assumptions of polar opposites.

Incredibly promising indeed.