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Karla Black, Traps Take Practice, 2011. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection.
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Magali Reus, Parking (Legs At Eye Level), 2014. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. Photo: Plastiques. 3 / 8 Theaster Gates, Piano Lesson with Sitter, 2013. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 4 / 8 Caroline Achaintre, Fazes, 2012. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 5 / 8 Jason Dodge, Ringing Through Chimneys, A bell attached to the brush of chimney sweep Jörg Häuseler during the spring chimney cleaning in a neighborhood in Berlin. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 6 / 8 Karla Black, Traps Take Practice, 2011. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 7 / 8 Lea Cetera, Railing Section, 2015. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. Photo: Ernst Fischer 8 / 8 Tatsuya Kimata Double, 2006. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection.
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Rodney Graham, 'Sunday Sun, 1937', 2012 Courtesy of the artist and David Roberts Collection. 2 / 8 Magali Reus, Parking (Legs At Eye Level), 2014. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. Photo: Plastiques. 3 / 8 Theaster Gates, Piano Lesson with Sitter, 2013. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 4 / 8 Caroline Achaintre, Fazes, 2012. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 5 / 8 Jason Dodge, Ringing Through Chimneys, A bell attached to the brush of chimney sweep Jörg Häuseler during the spring chimney cleaning in a neighborhood in Berlin. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 6 / 8 Karla Black, Traps Take Practice, 2011. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. 7 / 8 Lea Cetera, Railing Section, 2015. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection. Photo: Ernst Fischer 8 / 8 Tatsuya Kimata Double, 2006. Courtesy the Artist and David Roberts Collection.
Exhibition
She sees the shadows
14 Jul 2018 – 4 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 16:30
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 16:30
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 16:30
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 16:30
- Friday
- 10:30 – 16:30
Address
- 12 Vaughan Street
- Llandudno
Wales - LL30 1AB
- United Kingdom
She sees the shadows is a group exhibition of works from the David Roberts Collection that resonate with the ideas found in Space and Sight.
About
We are pleased to present the first off-site collaboration by DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), with works by:
Caroline Achaintre, Horst Ademeit, Fiona Banner, Sara Barker, Phyllida Barlow, Neil Beloufa, David Birkin, Karla Black, Carol Bove, Martin Boyce, Boyle Family, Lea Cetera, Susan Collis, Thomas Demand, Jason Dodge, Theaster Gates, Isa Genzken, Rodney Graham, Harry Gruyaert, Jeppe Hein, Marine Hugonnier, Pierre Huyghe, Matthew Day Jackson, Tatsuya Kimata, Rachel Kneebone, Elad Lassry, Bob Law, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Kris Martin, Marlie Mul, Nika Neelova, Man Ray, Magali Reus, Pietro Roccasalva, Analia Saban, Erin Shirreff, Monika Sosnowska, Oscar Tuazon, Gavin Turk, Franz West, Douglas White.
“She sees the shadows… she even counts the tree-trunks along a promenade by the shadows, but sees nothing of the shape of things.”*
In 1886, a 22-year-old woman in Lyon saw the world around her for the first time. Objects instantly recognisable by touch were hard to distinguish with her new sight, and shadows appeared more concrete than solid forms. Her doctors described the sudden strangeness of familiar environments, and her singular experience of the world as a newly sighted person.
In his 1932 book Space and Sight, Marius Von Senden collated the patient’s experiences alongside testimonies of similar cases dating from 1020 to the present. These captivating accounts, which later inspired writers including Maggie Nelson and Annie Dillard, express how something familiar can show a previously unacknowledged beauty when seen in a new way.
She sees the shadows is a group exhibition of works from the David Roberts Collection that resonate with the ideas found in Space and Sight. Each artist has re-conceived day-to-day objects and materials in unexpected ways – a bench, plug socket, grate, section of railing or broom – inviting viewers to see alternative qualities and narratives therein.
Each of the works in a collection, like the testimonies compiled by Von Senden, speak of personal experiences and moments. She sees the shadows is accompanied by a new publication with responses to the project from writers Orit Gat, Claire Potter and Sally O’Reilly, and artists David Birkin, Jason Dodge, Marine Hugonnier, Marlie Mul, Magali Reus and Douglas White.
