THOUGH A “GREEN LENS”, DARKLY
(Mirrors, Speculums and Visions of the Beyond!)
22nd - 24th March 2024
A group exhibition of multidisciplinary art - Experimental Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Painting, Musical Performance, Performance art.
Ashley Scott Fitzgerald - Bjørn Hatleskog - Inga Tillere - Ismini Sigala - Johny Brown - Jo Wonder - Jonathan Ford - Kevin Quigley - Magical Sun - Mark Rathmell - Mary Yacoob - Minerva Carvalho - Phill Wilson Perkin - Ralf Jacobs - Ria Wank - Sarah Sparkes - Siobhan McAuley - Wolfgang Ganter - Yev Kazannik
Curated by
Kevin Quigley
Yev Kazannik
PV: Friday 22nd March 6-9pm
2nd event: Saturday 23rd March 2-9pm
Performances
Friday
Jo Wonder + Mark Rathmell
The Glass of Silence
Saturday
Magical Sun
Cosmic Kazannik (DJ Set)
Belle Bete (DJ Set)
“All teems with symbol; the wise person is a person who in any one thing sees another”, Plotinus (204-270 CE) 2nd Ennead
From the medieval word Speculum comes the word Speculation or Speculative as in - Speculative Philosophy - a philosophy professing to be founded upon intuitive or a priori insight - a philosophy with special insight into the nature of the Absolute or Divine, the transcendent…
When St Paul coined his famous phrase - ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly’, - 1 Corinthians 13:12. He was actually re-quoting an original phrase by the Greek Philosopher Socrates who said. For I am very far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," from Plato’s Phaedo
The English word for Glass comes from the pan-Germanic word - Glæs
Which means a substance that glows or glistens - a mirror? Oxford English Dictionary first translated this as - Speculum “Mirror” or as a magic crystal in 1484
According to the English Scholar - Angela Voss Scrying has been variously defined as “the faculty of seeing visions in a smooth surface - an occult method for obtaining oracular visions in water, glass or crystal - the idea of a mirror or shining surface revealing an occult dimension.
Looking forward to see you then over that weekend on sunny March