Strabismus: The Lombard Method.. at a glance

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Mexico's at a glance series invites similar groups from around the UK to use Mexico for a short period of time. For the third part in the series, Mexico has invited the Birmingham based artist-led studio and project space, The Lombard Method, who will present Strabismus. Strabismus is an exhibition articulated through cinematic film, featuring work by Helen Brown, Grantchester Pottery, Janet Hodgson, Tom Ireland, Stuart Layton, Joanne Masding, and Clemens von Wedermeyer. Artwork, documentation and description become their mise-en-scene counterpart and fulfill the role of scenery, narrative, character and plot. Featured artworks support a narrative that explores the possibilities and restrictions of mediating an exhibition through cinema, such as continuity, context, and authorship. The film follows a psychologically fractured interview between two unnamed characters, haunted by an unknown entity within the film. This unknown spectre finds a physical body through works exhibited in the film, and allows the protagonists explore the medium of their own representation. A dramatic re-contextualization posits limitations on principle readings of artworks. However, cinematic devices such as soundtracks, dialogue, and narrative structure open up possibilities of new readings. The relationship between works becomes mediated through the chronology of narrative, offering a new criterion for works to engage with one another.