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Alicia Carroll
alicia.carroll@ntlworld.com | 07772 532985 | www.alicia-carroll-art.weebly.com
Obelisk
Raw steel columns, which keeled on rain-softened soil,
now stand attentive on the gallery floor. Their faces,
stained by a fine film of rust, are carried by joints
succumbing to the contortions of their nature. Their
bodies, worn by their journey, reveal the marks of
fabrication.
Beginning in the workshop, hard steel is measured,
cut and welded into an assembly of familiar form.
These feckless structures, gathered in rooms
designed for production and making, are, in this
context, devoid of intention or purpose.
Transported into the pastoral environment of the
North East, these formal structures tether a rural
landscape into the frame of viewing. Through a
series of private events within various sites the
structures evolve from inanimate forms into tools.
Their occupation of these places results in an
accumulation of sediment and physical scarring on
their surfaces.
Reconstructed in a gallery environment a new
situation is created. Using both digital and analogue
projection the installations re-purpose accumulated
images of place, collaging them to create a layered,
technologically alert live event. As the projections
flick from one environment to the next narrative is
blurred. Time and place is folded through memory
and site and the images morph into a collective
non-site.
Within this the steel columns act as a
counterbalance to the transience of collaged light
and re-implement the figurative form. This
constructed environment is enhanced by the glitch
of digitally translated media and the whirr of the
projector fans, a mechanical mantra that fills the
silence between a reality and its reproduction.
‘Obelisk’, 2015 (projections on steel)
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