FOR/IN ITSELF
Two artists show
15th February - 1st March 2020
Chalton Gallery
Chalton Gallery
Our eyes, ears, hands and organs are the entities that exist within the world, databanks that are responsible for supplying information. They are part of a fleshy network that creates cognition, but we cannot be sure if they retain their own cognitive power. It is this uncertain distribution that shifts perceptive agency into the perceived object. Subject and object mutate in and out of each other. The subject becomes stocked with power when an individual moment collides with reconstructed sensations. These sensations can take on an unnatural aspect, becoming unsettling and giving us the feeling that there is something lurking just out of view waiting to make itself known. This dissolution and reconfiguration of perception as multifaceted, rather than tethered to a fixed single point, opens up peripheral spaces and alternative systems made known to us through the fuzzy cognisance of the fleshy networks.
FOR/IN ITSELF reflects on the interrelation of sense, space and perception within artistic practices. Addressing the capability of the world to represent itself without being completely explicit, treating experience as an open totality of inexhaustible synthesis. The exhibition explores the experience of an I, not in the sense of an absolute subjectivity, but one that is being invisibly demolished and transformed. FOR/IN ITSELF abandons the concept of ‘the single space’ and attempts to coalesce objectivity through resuming the contact with the sensorial.
For the exhibition artists Matilda Moors and Svetlana Ochkovskaya imagine the gallery space as a creature, morphing it into a body. Moors addresses the idea of being drawn in, shifting from surface to innards. She takes the mouth as a starting point, abstracting it into fragmented parts that are reassembled within the confines of the gallery walls. While Ochkovskaya breaks down the everyday experience of the space and creates a disorientated environment in order to move away from our usual atomised perception of the world. This is played out through her installations which are inhabited with an inhuman creature that comes to life in her performances.
FOR/IN ITSELF reflects on the interrelation of sense, space and perception within artistic practices. Addressing the capability of the world to represent itself without being completely explicit, treating experience as an open totality of inexhaustible synthesis. The exhibition explores the experience of an I, not in the sense of an absolute subjectivity, but one that is being invisibly demolished and transformed. FOR/IN ITSELF abandons the concept of ‘the single space’ and attempts to coalesce objectivity through resuming the contact with the sensorial.
For the exhibition artists Matilda Moors and Svetlana Ochkovskaya imagine the gallery space as a creature, morphing it into a body. Moors addresses the idea of being drawn in, shifting from surface to innards. She takes the mouth as a starting point, abstracting it into fragmented parts that are reassembled within the confines of the gallery walls. While Ochkovskaya breaks down the everyday experience of the space and creates a disorientated environment in order to move away from our usual atomised perception of the world. This is played out through her installations which are inhabited with an inhuman creature that comes to life in her performances.
About the Artists
Matilda Moors
Moors graduated from the Royal Academy and previously studied at Camberwell College of Art and School of the Damned. Exhibitions include High Strangeness (The Function Suite, London, 2019); Temporary Realities (Chalton, London, 2019); Carton (Numbered Editions, 2019), HTTPS:// (Sluice, Curated by IKO, London, 2018) and Sinkhole (Ginny Projects, 2018).
Svetlana Ochkovskaya
Ochkovskaya is educated at Goldsmiths, University of London and formerly studied at Southampton Solent University. Exhibitions comprise Arcane World (Hidden Wardrobe, Southampton, 2018); Vibrant (Ethos Space, Fareham, 2017). Residencies and awards include Batsford Prize Award (2019, 2017); Visual Art Open Prize (2018); Best Visual Artist Guide Award Portsmouth (2019, 2018); Southampton Solent University residence (until august 2020); Aspex Gallery residency (2018); Space/ Sticks Gallery residency (2018).
Matilda Moors
Moors graduated from the Royal Academy and previously studied at Camberwell College of Art and School of the Damned. Exhibitions include High Strangeness (The Function Suite, London, 2019); Temporary Realities (Chalton, London, 2019); Carton (Numbered Editions, 2019), HTTPS:// (Sluice, Curated by IKO, London, 2018) and Sinkhole (Ginny Projects, 2018).
Svetlana Ochkovskaya
Ochkovskaya is educated at Goldsmiths, University of London and formerly studied at Southampton Solent University. Exhibitions comprise Arcane World (Hidden Wardrobe, Southampton, 2018); Vibrant (Ethos Space, Fareham, 2017). Residencies and awards include Batsford Prize Award (2019, 2017); Visual Art Open Prize (2018); Best Visual Artist Guide Award Portsmouth (2019, 2018); Southampton Solent University residence (until august 2020); Aspex Gallery residency (2018); Space/ Sticks Gallery residency (2018).
About Chalton Gallery
Chalton is an art organisation comprising Chalton Gallery in London & Chalton Projects operating mainly in the UK and Mexico.
Chalton focuses on promoting contemporary Mexican artists in the UK as well as supporting British artists who are at the early stage of their career. Likewise, the gallery has an active public programme that includes residencies, conferences, talks, screenings, performances and book presentations.
Chalton is an art organisation comprising Chalton Gallery in London & Chalton Projects operating mainly in the UK and Mexico.
Chalton focuses on promoting contemporary Mexican artists in the UK as well as supporting British artists who are at the early stage of their career. Likewise, the gallery has an active public programme that includes residencies, conferences, talks, screenings, performances and book presentations.