Maskull Lasserre - Omen
29 Apr - 27 May 2017
The stillness of inanimate matter and the silence of motionless surfaces are not the true condition of objects. Stasis, in fact, is not an attribute of the things we hurry past in our daily lives but rather an inherent artifact of the human timeframe.
The objects in Omen are ensnared by the threshold of stillness and motion. They have just moved or are just about to. Each work carries a burden of potential inherited from its material lineage of forest, or ore, and from human interventions of intent, worry and hope. This burden is delivered to the viewer not in physical weight or material worth, but through the silent charge that propels any purpose to its fulfilment; through the taut spring of expectation that is left to uncoil within the viewer’s skull.
- ML
The objects in Omen are ensnared by the threshold of stillness and motion. They have just moved or are just about to. Each work carries a burden of potential inherited from its material lineage of forest, or ore, and from human interventions of intent, worry and hope. This burden is delivered to the viewer not in physical weight or material worth, but through the silent charge that propels any purpose to its fulfilment; through the taut spring of expectation that is left to uncoil within the viewer’s skull.
- ML