Category: Art
Liminal States is showing at the creative hub The Hospital Club, in Covent Garden. If you can get past the incredibly rude door staff (they made me feel like an errant tramp on my way into the private view) then you should find Alex Shepherd's solo show at the back of the first floor.
I was attracted to this show by the arresting image on the email invite, a bulbous globe that is part planet, part eyeball. Lowell (above) was inspired by the scientific research of astronomer Percival Lowell, who believed he saw life in complex canal systems on Mars when in fact it was the back of his retina projected on to the surface of Mars.
As the name suggests Liminal States looks at the spaces between. In Animate Examinate a fly, caught between the immobility of cold and the busy-ness of operative warmth, is lodged between life and death. Relic uses a recording of static frequency from background radiation which is then looped over sticks on a geometric underboard.
It's all very very conceptual – the kind of art that really does need explaining with copious amounts of text. If that's your bag then do head on down, it's at The Hospital Club until Saturday 19th March.