A Timely Glimpse of that Elusive Other
It's hard to make work about something that doesn't exist. This dilemma is an old one for artists - being at the being at the forefront of change, constantly bringing to light concepts which exist at the fringe of human understanding. The entire concept of the Avant-Garde is founded around that - and even conservative echelons of the art world has an element of 'frontier' to it. It must - encounters with the unknown are an inherent part of artistic practice. In this sense, Subject 23's exhibition A Timely Glimpse of that Elusive Other is only exceptional in that it is no exception. Taking the elusive nature of water as its starting point, the exhibition explores ambiguity across many realms - of nature, spirituality, and the object's relationship with the body. This is best exemplified by the sculpture Chaos , a semi-functioning 'skipper' water sprinkler that distributes seemingly at random throughout one of the rooms of the exhibition. The random