A young mans wanders to all sorts of exhibitions and travels to the places where art is all that’s talked about. On a visit to All Visual Arts gallery in King's Cross for Polly Morgan's recent exhibition.| By Teucer.
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| © Polly Morgan, The Fall , 2012 , Taxidermy, Rubber, Mixed media . |
Often one stands before an artists creation and is perplexed by it due to either its mind-blowing force or its ideological magnetism. Both the former and the latter provoke an internal conversation between viewer and exhibit. Step 1: One senses the aesthetic pleasure and is allured by the physicality of the work. Step 2: One self-reflects or better is captured in an introspective dialogue which is more conceptually linked with the exhibit. Both of the above where satisfied when I visited 'Endless Plains', Polly Morgan's Current Exhibition at All Visual Arts Gallery.
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| © Polly Morgan, Harbour, 2012 , Taxidermy, Rubber, Mixed media . |
Endless Plains comes to reference as a title the dreamt and the subconscious which in this case is, through the artists largest installation to date, of a more allegoric nature as it evaluates human mortality and nature's rules through a manner which shouldn't be evaluated only on its surface. The exhibition is inspired by the artists recent visit to the Serengheti after which she stumbled across nature's sometimes ferocious face by developing a life-threatening decease herself for which she had to undergo surgery.
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| © Polly Morgan, Hide and Fight, 2012 , Taxidermy and mixed media . |
A taxidermy stag is hollowed and its cavity is filled with resting bats, 7 piglets seem to be devouring every last drop of life off a mildewy hollow tree. Elsewhere a lifeless fox is caressed by an overruling octopus which is in extend what nourishes a voracious flight of birds.
The exhibition reflects on both the artist's love for animals and her eagerness to preserve them as well as the pivotal importance that death has to her work. The departure of life and the preservation of it seem interlinked and a melancholic optimism can be addressed as the aftertaste of Morgan's straightforwardness.
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| © Polly Morgan, Gold Finch, 2012, Taxidermy, cremated bird remains. |
Comprehension of nature's intricacies seems effortless and delicate in Morgan's work where the beauty and the importance of it is derived by the sole understanding of the circle of life. Yet not everything is fact-specific in the work as ones imagination through the micro stories behind each work is a big part of the mythologic aura 'Endless Plains' create.
" Endless Plains is a meditation on death as process -both hierarchy and commodity, as parasites become hosts, maintaining balance through bloodshed " *
The exhibition ends on Tuesday the 31st of July. Opening hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10-6 pm.
* For the press release please press HERE
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