rbs education workshop last month, working from my work in the show; ‘I called you…’
Installed with headphones, seating and plinth with artist’s brain in display case.
‘The hypnotic black and white video loop Twenty Four More Hours of Progress… (2008) showed glossy black stones thrown from Dean Bridge in Edinburgh,
the site of numerous suicides since its construction in 1932…’ Brian Dillon, Frieze, June 2009.
For her first International solo show, Lyndsay Mann presents an installation of three works held in conspiratorial conversation across a reduced plane of submissive grey walls at FOUR.
In the first room Mann’s film ‘Twenty Four More Hours of Progress…’ shot at Edinburgh’s Dean Bridge, a notorious suicide destination since its completion in 1832, documents a banal activity, (rocks being thrown from a bridge), and it’s inevitable conclusion (hitting the water), creating a hypnotic momentum through repetition and rhythm. Subtle differences within each sequence indicate some possibility of consequence from the repeated action.
The corridor between the two spaces hosts a speaker voicing intimate, strangulated sounds. Mann’s audio work ‘Greater Than’, comprises individual words recorded, edited and reformed into conversational rhythm just beyond comprehension.
In the second room, a sheet of black glass, which appears as a glossy hole in the wall, comes into view, shifting daylight round the room where the viewer is confronted by the first human-scale realisation of one of Mann’s hand-crafted maquettes. The recurring use of black glass in her sculptural installations creates a bond and a tension between the object and it’s other self.
The viewer’s movement across the space forces an excommunication between the object and it’s ‘shadow’. At a fixed point the object fills the shiny void, but seen from elsewhere, stands in a state of heightened solitariness.
FOUR is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.
FOUR, 119 Capel Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. +353 (01) 872 9315 www.fourdublin.com
