Gladly Beyond

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In Gladly Beyond Ten Obstructions embrace the opportunity for experimentation that Rogue Project Space offers. The title comes from ee cummings, himself radical experimenter with form: ‘somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience’.

Gladly Beyond journeys literally, visually and imaginatively through time and through space. It explores the possibilities of visual representation: through light, through simplification of form, or by playing with scale. It delves into the nature of perception, the process of looking, the connections and dialogue between visual representation and the natural world – capturing a feeling, a pulsing life essence. 

Journeys of the imagination take us from fabled and mythic magical gardens to speculative fictions. We leave behind the constructs and fictions that justify existing hierarchies and inequalities - all responding to the inexorable march of man-made climate change. The voyage brings the viewer quickly to issues of caring and interdependence: concern for the vulnerable and displaced; care for the planet and for each other - existences intertwined. 

Travelling through space, landscape blurs to the point of abstraction, traversing the elements of air, land and water beyond the horizon. The journey halts a moment to recognise those who have fled the safety - and danger - of home, only to encounter new perils. Travelling through time: as witnesses of the future past, or of change and transition, travelling into the post-apocalyptic, or from this world to the next. Time becomes cyclical: growth, maturity, death and decay, and the work becomes ongoing - process made public.