Exhibition

...Is For...

10 Feb 2018 – 24 Feb 2018

Event times

Fri and Sat 12-5pm (by appointment)

Cost of entry

free

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Sluice Gallery

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • 30, 38, 242, 276
  • Hackney Central
  • Hackney Central
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Simon Leahy-Clark’s new work “…IS FOR…”, is an archaeology of letters where the symbols of language are presented as monuments left abandoned in unspecified landscapes.

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Collaged from black and white newspaper photos, the works appear as archaic prints, Piranesian ruins of a bygone era, a possible record of a “Grand Tour” of a past, or future, civilisation. The meaning, however, of these alphabetic, architectural relics is not fixed – they remain as mysterious as Stonehenge or the monoliths on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968); in their dystopian view they also allude to the final scene in Planet of the Apes (1968). The letters encompass scenes in which can be found small traces of activity, a touch of human presence in contemplation of landscapes assembled from the remnants of everyday life.

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Simon Leahy-Clark

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