Exhibition
Rock Island
7 Jun 2018
Event times
Thursday, 7th June, 6 pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 16 John Islip Street
- London
- SW1P 4JU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 2, C10, 36, 77A, 88, 185, 436
- Tube: Pimlico, Vauxhall
MAFA presents a series of works by Chase SZAKMARY curated by peers & pals Cred ROY and Ani MKRTCHYAN with the participation of Simon ENGLISH
About
On a Rock Island, feet bending to meet the contour of the slab, legs flexing and arms adjusting with the alternating plane and the moss underfoot.
In crevasses, hermit crabs cluster and braze to the rocks with the incoming and outgoing tides, small fish pool and spider crabs hunt.
Through the light filtering reeds, insects churn unceasingly obeying the whims of the birds in a closing day glow spectrum.
It’s easy to imagine we’re just standing on water. Running the rickety dock and breaking the cool blue frame.
HASTA LA VISTA and cannonball!
Rock Island is like a precise moment - a so-called "Now" captured by a polaroid photograph which instantly becomes the past - On a recycling calendar page, drawing acts as a memory, a simultaneous presence of old and new.
A gestural response and sequences of moments which suggests a dependence on memory as an intellectual construct relating to how we perceive space and time.
A collection of drawings and habited objects that grapple the ephemeral process of the making - Experiencing time through process, we perceive time in the memory of it.
We participate in a life design that emulates other lives lived, running parallel to our own physical universe.
