brook & black

This multi-sensory installation (sculpture, video, print and sound) played on the interaction of the binary oppositions of inside and outside, order and chaos.  With work placed both inside and outside the gallery it considered the image of the river as one of potential catastrophe, with the power to destabilise and submerge the daily security of the domestic. Anxieties over climate change and the increased flood risk to the River Thames were part of backdrop to the work. The work referenced Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa – a depiction of an infamous shipwreck where over 100 lives were lost in a fight for survival. The Medusa heads, cast heads of the three daughters of the artists, related to both Gericault's painting and the Greek myth of Medusa. Her hair, in the myth made of writhing serpents, here became the paths of flood-threatened rivers whose contours changed with the rising waters. Past and future anxiety connects in word and spirit both the painting and the built sculptural raft