Concept

Curated by Diana Ali

d o u . b l e . l i v e s

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A Visual Arts Exhibition at The Malt Cross, Nottingham.

www.maltcross.com

16 St. James Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FG.

12th-25th February 2011

Private View 11th February 2011 630pm-late

Monday- Saturday 11am-6pm.






A ‘double life’ conventionally is a life of two identities where one is simultaneously involved in two sets of circumstances and retains the secrecy of one from the other.

The exhibition is an exploration of the two sets exposing dichotomies of fiction and reality, mirror images and opposing forces. ‘Double lives’ cater for a parallel existence whether it portrays deceiving acts or insatiable fulfillment and can as subtle as a pen name or as exaggerated as the secret identity of a super hero; ultimately why are they adopted?

Rene Descartes and Gilbert Ryle both contest from separate perspectives that our biographies- mind and body- are divided but co-exist in parallel without being the same entity.

Artists have been invited to expose their work investigating functions of duality, such as alter egos, multiple personalities, parallel universes, secret relationships but where double lives exist, privately or publicly.

With thanks to Russell Slack.

Jean Harlow (UK)


Dark Matters.

Underlying geometry represents non-tangible theoretical reasoning aspects of human thought. This base layer forms a ‘field’ where intricate designs of an organic nature flow continuously in two or three-dimensions or both. These designs represent the duality of visible matter and unseen dark matter interacting to create illusions of reality.

Size 24 15x 15cm squares of MDF with ink drawings. (Six squares are fused as one piece forming a 30 x 45cm unit, four pieces are made from three fused squares 15 x 45 cm, whilst there are six single 15 x 15 cm squares.) The curator is to decide how to arrange on site.

Contact jeanharlowartist@hotmail.com