Invisible Narratives - new conversations about time and place.
23rd March to 15th June 2019 at Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.
curated by L.Himid.
Downstairs Rebecca Chesney has a 3 screen video making a loud roaring sea sound. On the left a
lighthouse, centre an arrow shape , right a buoy with flashing light, seen at various
times of day and night. It makes an impression, the dangers at sea, the immense
power of it, is evoked.
Upstairs she has acres of pencil graphs and screenprints of data that make my heart sink.
They are about deforestation and sea levels I read.
Magda Stawarska-Beavan shows paintings of places, complex images in greens or
browns.
She has a desk with a map of Zanzibar and cleverly projected video of the sea on the
page of a book.
The projector is secreted within the desk lamp. I got so interested in how
this was done that the why escaped me.
Lubaina Himid shows an old dressing table with paintings inside the drawers. Unusual but
the meanings again were uncertain.
On the stairs she showed a very small paintings on
zinc of the sea, placed subtly and easily missed, and an abstract painting of rough
coloured overlapping lines.
I have heard Lubiana Himid speak interestingly on past projects about images of black
people. I found the book provided about her fascinating.
However, although this show is intriguing up to a point, it's an inconclusive foggy point leaving me
all at sea about if these works say anything in particular put together
Mary Fletcher
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