The Crystal World

3 April - 26 June 2020

We're pleased to present The Crystal World, an online only exhibition featuring work by Jack Brindley & Yeni Mao.

    • Jack Brindley and Yeni Mao, based in Glasgow and Mexico City respectively, are occupied by overlapping and bisecting areas of interest. Both artists reference architecture, modernism and wider cultural and...
    • The title of one of Yeni Mao’s two sculptures - fig 23.4 cypher - alludes to hidden meanings within the work, a code or hidden message that may be unpacked...
    • Brindley, like Mao, also plays with this idea of visual and thematic layering and exploring the thresholds and interplay between form, function, ideology and idea. For the works in The...
    • The artworks in The Crystal World are not only of their time, but they are also of time ; they represent an accumulation of history, the perception and perspective of...
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  • 'Mao’s sculptures hang from a single point, their own gravity giving structure to their forms so that they seem almost...

    "Mao’s sculptures hang from a single point, their own gravity giving structure to their forms so that they seem almost to hum with potential or vestigial motion."

  • '...inspired by the traditional Japanese aesthetic Wabi-sabi, which celebrates the imperfect, impermanent and the incomplete.'

    "...inspired by the traditional Japanese aesthetic Wabi-sabi, which celebrates the imperfect, impermanent and the incomplete."

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