Concept

Curated by Diana Ali

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

d u p . l e . t r i a ls

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.

Lemeh 42 (Italy)


Wool and Water.

Animation. Duration: 3:21

We are profoundly interested in representation problems and in the organization of space and time structures.
We are researching through video on the possible transformations of the classic narrative structure and on the multiple ways of telling stories. Our research finds inspiration into science, art, figurative painting and avant-garde literature.
Our images and excerpts are always shown into an intellectual context that the audience must discover. The context differs in each of our work, on the basis of different organization principles of the work of art. The world of expression assumes a precise form in our work. We start from an idea, a rare and high idea that evolves into something fantastic. Fantastic does not necessarily mean folkloric, but a sophisticated intellectual adventure with philosophical and metaphysical ambitions. The worlds represented in our stories have nothing to do with everyday life. They are like alternative worlds with their own rules, rigid and mysterious at the same time. This is the reason why the symbols that we prefer are images reflected in a mirror game. Our game is a mind game, our narration never gives the impression of the pure intellectual divertissement; instead, each work is a conceptual effort, a “high” vision of the world different from the world that we know, in order to amplify as much as possible our intellectual capabilities.