double lives : duple trials: Shona Davies , David Monaghan and Jon Klein (UK)

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 11^th 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.

Away From the Light.

Size: 61 cm x 46 cm x 40 cm, Materials: Mixed media & found adapted objects
Animated film installation, looped animation 3 minutes 40 seconds.

Away from the Light creates a miniature environment that, while being an imaginary space, exploits the potential sense of unease generated through the familiarity of the scene. The viewer is positioned as an illicit voyeur observing this enclosed world which explores notions of the double life; what we choose to share and the internal world of the mundane, fantasies, despair and dark humour. The protagonist’s inability to influence events is contrasted with his final act.