Discombobuloscopy
Convenience Gallery, Birkenhead
Acrylic on handcut mdf, plywood and polymer clay, automotive paint on aluminium, metal frame and curtain. 2022.
Friday 25th February 2022 - 11th March 2022
Convenience Gallery, Bloom Building, Birkenhead, CH41 5FQ
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‘Discombobuloscopy’ is an experimental collaborative painting, made in relief from hand cut MDF, metal and polymer clay. Mounted as a tri-fold modesty screen made specifically for the Convenience Gallery modular framework, it sits in a tradition of decoratively carved and painted screens and room dividers that dates back thousands of years, including those used for the privacy of medical examination.
The painting depicts an imaginative, unfolding body as landscape for contemplation; part self-examination, part costume change. Inspired by cartoonish representations, medical models and body imaging, body horror movie prop design and the melting, colour driven animism of psychedelia; the piece meditates on how conscious we have become of our bodies and whether it’s possible to build a coherent picture of them? Do we view our bodies as just a vehicle and what or who is along for the ride; are we just relay nodes for the micro-organisms we house? How best do we live in ourselves as a site for transformation?
Trifold Handout to accompany the exhibition:
