Georgina Starr - Before Le Cerveau Affamé

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Le Cerveau Affamé (The Hungry Brain) is a place. It is also a game that one may or may not be invited to play. The entrance into Le Cerveau Affamé is via a set of cards, each selection proposes a different journey. The Cooper Gallery is proud to present Before Le Cerveau Affamé, a space for metaphysical transformation, by Georgina Starr, one of the most original and distinctive British artists celebrated internationally since the 1990s for her magically complex and multi-layered works. Developed especially for the Cooper Gallery's unique architectural setting, Starr offers a glimpse into ‘Le Cerveau' and introduces us to its main motifs, the four suits of ‘The Brain', ‘The Bubble', ‘The Cat' and ‘The Hand'. An abiding preoccupation of Georgina Starr has been the conception of other possible worlds, but these worlds are more that just the creative imaginings of an artist. Imbued with inexplicably emotive renderings of her own languages and characters, Starr's work is an intense and introspective cosmology. Folding together fiction, history, philosophy and spiritualism, Starr illuminates a vast topology of the self, haunted by the medium of her own voices. Deep within this murmur the inherently speculative truth of biography is endlessly transformed, propelling the self into an abyss held fast between what was, is and could be. Georgina Starr rose to prominence in the early 1990s and was included in many iconic international exhibitions of the YBA era with her astonishingly refreshing works including Crying (1993), The Nine Collections of the 7th Museum (1994), Visit to a Small Planet (1995), Hypnodreamdruff (1996), The Bunny Lake Series (1999-2003) Theda (2007-10), and The Joyful Mysteries of Junior (2012). Preview: Thursday 10 October, 5.30 - 8pm For Cooper Gallery, Starr will produce a new publication The History of Sculpture that will be launched during the exhibition later this year. This project is kindly supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland and The Henry Moore Foundation. Cooper Gallery is located in the Crawford Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.