Stillman: The Surface of the City and the Depth of the Psyche

2013 - 2018

Project site: London, UK

My research and connected aesthetic practice is absorbed into the perception of the urban landscape in materialist and imaginative dimensions. Within this, my practice forefronts the relationship between the subject of perception and object of attention and the figures that this process is able to generate. In particular, issues pertaining to the formation of identity come to the fore. This in turn implicates a questioning of the subject-object dualism in order to occasion a fluid spatial poetics. The discovery of new vectors within the folds of visibilities within encounters, surprises within what occasions the play of absence and presence, the apprehension of spectres within such folds and play of difference all provide for a sense of the opening out of projects which thus sustains the research. If there is a search within the research then it is within a series of in-betweens in which a third figure may be discovered. Whether this third figure is understood as montage, an encounter with spectres, the construction of dialectical images, or the opening of a sensory poetics, the search keeps alive the restlessness of the daily absorption of everyday life.

01. A Neverland of Fragments; A Place of Wordless Things and Thingless Words, LED light and Sound, 2016
Installation view at ARKO Art Center, 2021
02. A Neverland of Fragments; A Place of Wordless Things and Thingless Words, LED light and Sound, 2016
Installation view at ARKO Art Center, 2021
03. A Neverland of Fragments; A Place of Wordless Things and Thingless Words, LED light and Sound, 2016
Installation view at the Alternative Space Loop
04. A Neverland of Fragments; A Place of Wordless Things and Thingless Words, LED light and Sound, 2016
Installation view at the Alternative Space Loop
05. A Neverland of Fragments; A Place of Wordless Things and Thingless Words, LED light and Sound, 2016
Installation view at Kumho Museum of Art, 2017
06. He Needs My Eye Looking At Him. He Needs Me To Prove He’s Alive, Holographic fabric, Dimension Variable, 2015
Installation view at the Alternative Space Loop
07. The Trace of Stillman, Engraved mirror, 121 x 140 x 0.6 cm, 2015
08. Visibility, Non-Visibility, Invisibility, Text with phosphorescent powder pigment, 2015
Installation view at SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art
09. The City of Fragments, Text on copper plates, 300 x 252 x 0.3 cm, 2015
10. The City of Fragments, Text on paper, 210 x 252 x 0.1 cm, 2015
11. The City of Fragments, Text on paper, 210 x 252 x 0.1 cm, 2015
12. The City of Fragments, Text on paper, 270 x 252 x 0.1 cm, 2015
13. The City of Fragments, Silkscreen, Dimensions variable, 2015
Installation view at the Saatchi Gallery
14. The City of Fragments, Silkscreen, Dimensions variable, 2015
15. Non-Visibility, Phosphorescent powder pigment, gold metallic foil, silver reflective fabric, cage, teeth, bird toy, etc. Including sound (12 minutes 30 seconds), 2014
Installation view at Dyson Gallery
16. Non-Visibility (details), Phosphorescent powder pigment, gold metallic foil, silver reflective fabric, cage, teeth, bird toy, etc. Including sound (12 minutes 30 seconds), 2014
Installation view at Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art
17. Non-Visibility (details), Phosphorescent powder pigment, gold metallic foil, silver reflective fabric, cage, teeth, bird toy, etc. Including sound (12 minutes 30 seconds), 2014
Installation view at Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art
18. Stillman: The Surface of the City and the Depth of Psyche, Text on paper, Dimension variable, 2016