Mr Palomar — Sarah Hughes & Patrick Farmer

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For their exhibition at Bloc Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer have installed a series of loudspeakers in the gallery that emit macro sound recordings of melting ice. The title is taken from Italo Calvino's philosophical novel Mr Palomar, which considers the significance of a mundane and anthropocentric view of life, and the apparent insignificance of the world around us. Hughes and Farmer use macro recordings of nature, time immemorial, to draw our attention to frequencies and life cycles that are either too high, too low, or too quiet to be heard. In this way the artists offer new perspectives that invite us to consider where we place ourselves within our environment. The work highlights the vastness of the unseen world, and the relative insignificance of the hectic ethos of modern civilization. By utilising one to demonstrate the other we see that the two can't live without each other. A limited edition of 27 3-inch CDR's will be available for sale in the gallery during the exhibition, featuring recordings of ants in the artists' garden; underwater tree roots and pumpkin seeds. See the artists' blog for more information about their work. www.compostandheight.blogspot.com