Posts Tagged ‘George Bures Miller’
The House of Books Has No Windows
‘The House of Books Has No Windows', a touring exhibition by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller kicked off at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh- now on at Modern Art Oxford- is an apt title for a show in this most literary of cities. The eponymous installation is a wendy house made from an array of books, from novels to travel guides. Climbing inside feels safe, like entering a childhood den, and evocatively musty yet also claustrophobic and imposing.The other six installations in the show see the pair entwine sound and movement. ‘The Dark Pool', the couple's first project together back in 1995, is a ramshackle room of seemingly disparate objects and speakers pouring out snatches of conversation. From this wellspring of vintage clothes, tattered books, old records, tea leaves and wax hands, a creeping sense of tension emanates; a pregnancy in the air as if something has happened or is about to. The pivot of the piece is a leather trunk, in which a scene has been constructed with miniature plastic model figures. They stand looking into a dark pool, a car lies abandoned while miniature lights twinkle overhead.
‘The Dark Pool' anaesthetises you from looking for concrete connections… read more
