Image courtesy of Maria Stenfors
LtA… a subtitle
16 November – 22 December 2012
at Maria Stenfors, London
Artists: Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Damien Roach, Megan Rooney.
Curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak
* Opening: Thursday 15 November 2012, 18h30 – 20h30
…My cybernetic mosses, wrested from my control, molded themselves into a strange and glittering medium that was not unlike flesh.
The ghost was growing a body, a sentient tumor from the substance of my own.
From the panic and disorientation that clattered from his mind it was evident that the form that he found himself incarnated within was no shape that he had ever anticipated or conceived of…
LtA… a subtitle is an open investigation of the endgame conceptions of postmodern thought and conditions – an investigation of how we still feel, intimately and intricately, and communicate through inhabiting images that don’t outwardly ‘belong’ to us. In a series of Swamp Thing comic books written by Alan Moore in the late 1980s, the title character is wandering through space as a bodiless entity, taking physical form with whatever organic matter he happens to find on the various planets he touches down on. In one particular episode, called ‘Loving the Alien’, he takes bodily hold on a planet that is a single, living, conscious machine. The story is illustrated primarily with photo collages, told as a fairy tale to the resulting offspring from his visit. [read the full text here]
Maria Stenfors
Unit 10, 21 Wren Street,
London WC1X 0HF
mariastenfors.com
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Saturday 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Or by appointment.