Eccentric Spaces
Selected works from BEARSPACE Gallery
Curated by Futurecity
6th February – 6th March 2015
The Gallery at Foyles
Vespertine, Suzanne Moxhay, courtesy of BEARSPACE Gallery
To put the world on one sheet of paper – maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all…They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can’t see and spaces we can’t cover.”
― Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, MIT Press 1977
Eccentric Spaces is an exhibition of selected artworks drawn from the collection of Deptford based BEARSPACE Gallery, Curated by Futurecity. The title is a reference to the book of the same title by Robert Harbison. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration.
In Harbison’s book – as in this exhibition – the subject is the human imagination, and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: neglected gardens, abandoned rooms, brooding buildings, uncanny forests, fictional topographies, outmoded technologies and lost architectures. Some spaces are real, some are imaginary. Many are somewhere in-between the two.
Artists: Reginald Aloysius, Victoria Arney, Flea Folly Architects (FFA), Alastair Gordon, Olivia Jade Savage, Janie Kidston, Natasha Kissell, Lucinda Metcalfe, Suzanne Moxhay, Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup, Patrick Raimondi Taylor, Jane Ward
About BEARSPACE: BEARSPACE is a pioneering art space in London exhibiting emerging artists who push the boundaries of contemporary art practice. Artists are selected for their response to contemporary culture and philosophy, and their work often displays a conceptual or narrative framework. Artworks pioneer innovative use of materials and rational and are of the highest technical quality. bearspace.co.uk