On the other side

About

Like an announcement through a dodgy train station speaker or a flirt's phone number marked onto a soggy scrap of paper, much of our everyday communications do not pan out or endure as intended. But these lapses shouldn’t be brushed off as void or inconsequential. Today we experience impermanence on a level which supersedes our general interactions. From shifting political scapes to the influx in freak natural disasters and global pandemics, it feels as though a mass state of flux is upon us. Navigating this terrain is arduous. Communication and self-organisation feel even more so. In the ruptures where technologies and global infrastructures are unable to fulfil our demands, information tends to lag and images judder. Taking note of the pictorial and linguistic structures operating around us, many of the artists exhibiting in On the Other Side utilise the systematic errors of a medium to their advantage. Here ghost images, stand-in protagonists and empty landscapes take the stage as the artists’ own preoccupations begin to unfold.