Mark Titchner
The Eye Don't See Itself
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Vilma Gold is pleased to announce Mark Titchner’s first
solo exhibition at Vilma Gold, London since 2004. The
exhibition is in two parts; a sculptural installation The White
Lite, and a video installation; The Eye Don’t See Itself.
The exhibition continues Titchner’s interest in human
perception, language, and states of mind, and examines the symbolism
of sexuality and gender, encryption, illusion, and symbology.
The Eye Don’t See Itself is video projection as monument,
mirrored in a black reflecting pool, referring to the Washington
Monument. The video is a kaleidoscopic depiction of an
unblinking eye against a phallic obelisk, on an endlessly shifting
background. The background is based on a Rorschach inkblot
commonly believed to represent the father.
This video employs a flickering light at a frequency of 10Hz,
in correspondence to the brain electrical activity in Alpha
state in attempt to alter the perception of the viewer, which
also references the work of W Grey Walter and Brion Gysin.
Computerised Male and Female voices repeat a mantra to psychotic
self-improvement…
“If you don’t like your
life you can change it.”
“After all what good
is life without conquest?”
“If you can dream
it you can do it.”
“THE
WHITE LITE”
The second gallery space: a stepped arrangement of 20 objects,
including 4 videos.
Bastardised rotoreliefs depicting undulating breasts and a panoptical
eye combined with casts of male and female pelvis bones, bear
a resemblance to Rorschach inkblot cards.
Maquettes for a version of Brancusi’s ‘Endless Column’
made of sugar cubes, reference the giant LSD sugar cube pyramid
in ‘Hollywood’s first underground movie’ The
Acid Eaters (1968).
Four kinetic light works that apply the principals of Brion
Gysin’s Dreamachine to the forms of the Obelisk (which
project an encoded light message/incantation) and the Solomonic
Column (columns based on the two columns in the Temple of Solomon
in Jerusalem).
Two casts of hand shadow puppet versions of the devil.
A carved CND symbol, and its inverted version, the Runic Symbol.
Algiz the Elk, the rune of protection, a broken circle formed
from two monochrome rainbows supported by a string art visualisation
of every permutation of letters in the English alphabet.
Lastly a sculpture of a well known five-sided shape attached
to a well-known optical illusion.
There are four video pieces amongst the sculptures; The Madonna
- mother and child, Nuclear Family – a naked beaming father
and radiant expectant mother, Tantric Separation – a depiction
of tantric sex, and Fear of Life – a couple as a unit
of emotional support, all depicting configurations of various
couples or family units
For further information or images please contact Sarah McCrory:
+44(0) 20 8981 3344 or: sarah@vilmagold.com |
The Eye Don't See Itself
Installation view: Vilma Gold
2007
The White Lite
Installation view: Vilma Gold
2007
Momma
Installation view: Vilma Gold
2007
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