Symbols Of The Supernatural And The Reality Of The Unseen

About

SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN 

23rd - 27th November

2022

@Fiveyears Gallery

www.fiveyears.org.uk

Artists

Amy Cutler

Ashley Scott Fitzgerald

Bjorn Hatleskog

Caroline Gregory

Inga Tillere

Jonathan Ford

Jowonder

Kevin Quigley

Lisa McKendrick

Marie-Therese Docherty

Marq Kearey

Minerva de Carvalho

Phill Wilson Perkin

Rebbeca Davies

Sean McLusky

Sarah Sparkes

Sharon Gal

Siobhan Mc Auley

Curated by

Kevin Quigley

PV

Friday 25th November

6pm - 9pm

2nd event

Saturday 26th November

12pm - 6pm

Gallery open daily

12-6pm

Performances

PV

Friday 25th

We have a especially commissioned performance work from artist Caroline Gregory

 'Offering to Mor-Rioghan'

Here in the darkness, …..space between spaces…. swirling mists..... waiting-not-waiting, nothing….no thing…..a breath…a blinking eye……a beating heart...... a threshold place neither awake nor asleep, a whisper.... hush… the Mor-Rioghan awaits.

Caroline Gregory is a London-born artist who has recently migrated to the South coast.

Her live work explores internal, ancestral, and universal narratives and the transformative power of relationality.

Her interventions seek to invite audiences into experiences of collectivity, ritual, and participation.

Instagram

@carolineagregory

www.carolinegregoryart.com

2nd event

Saturday 26th

TWO performances

Performances from 1pm sharp

1st

New work from Artist Amy Cutler

The Sky is Hidden in the Rock (live cinema)

Amy Cutler will be presenting a live cinema performance - drawing on Solar Rituals and Observations and their relationship to cinema’s need for “sacred darkness” (Casetti, 2008).

It will include new AV work to be created on her November residency at the site of La Penya Foradá in La Vall de Gallinera. This naturally formed perforated rock arch - on the site of a hidden Convent destroyed by an earthquake - creates a rare solar alignment phenomenon twice a year, which valley residents gather to observe as a festival event.

Drawing on the history of cinema as a ‘science of light’ and its relationship to other forms of social gathering for skygazing, eclipses, or at natural observatories for witnessing the cosmos, Cutler will create an illuminated journey in honour of the local ecologies of this communal site, from its astronomical phenomena to its prehistoric cave paintings.

Amy Cutler is an international live cinema artist and experimental designer. She is also a Daphne Oram award-winning sound artist, and has created interactive and immersive audio-visual experiences recently in San Francisco, Poland, Amsterdam, Paris, Finland, and at Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri-La. Her work draws on her background training as a Geographer (PhD) and often makes use of fieldwork and outdoor locations to consider alternative traditions of nature observation, spectacle, projection, and its audiences. This includes projects such as her touring ensemble NATURE’S NICKELODEONS, which most recently created live-generated nature documentary in the round, co-composed by the environmental monitoring of the atmosphere of the audience space, from brain waves to humidity.

www.amycutler.net 

Twitter: @amycutler1985

2nd

Minerva de Carvalho

Sound art performance

Sound performance based on the idea of the artist as mystic- the carrier and interpreter of messages from other realms.

Minerva de Carvalho is a visual and sound artist whose work explores dichotomies between conscious/subconscious and presence/absence, with a focus on 'otherness' and 'liminality'.

Her sound performances are influenced by experimentalism, noise and musique concrète with added mystical and hauntological qualities.

www.minervacarvalho.com

SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN

'All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality'.

Henry James

All Symbols are Occult - layered, hidden, veiled -

- Or the Anthropologists would take us further and say that the  meaning of Symbols is impenetrable.

Where Symbols are only open  for interpretation; different view points with time, memory - shifting understanding.

Motivation to understanding is therefore key -

Symbols - acting like tools of memory to pinpoint humanity, essence, deep knowledge.

Symbols are part of the complex reality of the unseen!

But what is the unseen?

Jung and the Scientists of the mind would tell us Reality is modes of consciousness -

- switching between perceived conscious and unconscious states, which are then annotated, researched and questioned - using scientific terminology - new words to describe - reality - words like Supernatural?

But of course reality is in the living? - the experience and the   essence of being - the art of being?

In this exhibition SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN the artists offer an interpretation of an unseen reality.

An exchange of thought and ideas on what could be called - the unknowable?

Or perhaps its the implicate order of wholeness? - where through the artists joint imagination -  the known and unknown collide majestically!

Fiveyears Gallery

Unit 2B1

Boothby Rd

London

N19 4AJ

www.fiveyears.org.uk

@fiveyearsarchway