NAVIGATION OF THE PRECIPICE
THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS GALLERY
2 EVA ST - OFF DIXON ST
WELLINGTON
02 - 12.03.2010
Solo showing by Russian Frost Farmer Mark Henley.
Navigation of the Precipice engages ubiquitous form animated through various sculptural mechanisms, posing a re-questioning of the banal. Bricolage combined with direct shadow-play offer abstract references to the everyday, bringing to light the unseen complexity, and at times beauty of objects we live amidst.
The shows title Navigation of the Precipice refers not only to the peripheral extremities of geographic course, but the bounds of ones imagined parameters. By removing objects from their expected context the viewer is confronted by a 'nudity' devoid of backdrop.
Henley conjures a realm in which one exists in a suspended state of disbelief. The learnt authenticity of ones surroundings is questioned; extrapolation of known truths is rife.
This show is born of a nomadic period spent in the Middle East throughout 2009.
Totem toward indifference, 2010 from M H on Vimeo.
