Visual Art
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The Pentagon Centre. Glasgow. until Fri 26 Nov 0000 Arts. Dundee. until Sat 4 Dec.
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0n the floor in the centre of the room are two TV screens I _ . r _ n _ m J 3 playing ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Catharsus’ by Gabriela igflkqflle Pam‘. . -_-. .‘ . . ll“. - MN 1" s.» l\ \‘3. Fridriksdottir. The two show the purging and release from " I f'IFOZCItm". NOONDAY DEMONS a sticky dough of a mummy-style figure. Floury coating " ‘jul ‘ " ' CCA. Glasgow, until Sun 21 Nov 0000 dries and cracks the caked skin of the body as it writhes around, legs spread open, vulnerable and bestial. It is the Melancholy is a strange thing. There’s a sweetness in its state of melancholy that is most helpless and desperate.
sadness; a pity in the pain and burden in the brooding. But In ‘Catharsis‘ the figure launches into a lake and sawing the feeling to which this exhibition of four Icelandic artists off its bread arm.
is dedicated is rich and often profound. Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir has sketched her melancholy It’s a time for reflection, honesty and opening yourself up onto paper. Fifteen sketches line one side of the room, 15 to the mysterious sadness that is part of being human. the other. In each drawing, outlines of faceless figures are Artists, musicians and writers have plumbed its depths filled in with thick gouache where blood splatters and since time immemorial. figures are bound together in impotent unity - the flaccid So the four lcelandics have a weight of cultural figures are helpless and empty. On the other wall, big precedence upon them. They deal with it well. Asdis Sif black holes gape in their stomachs, and water leaks out __ ' ‘ - Gunnarsdottir has created an installation ‘Kingdom of as it passes between them. ' ’ You/Youth in Control’. It is a light dreamscape in which Plaintive piano and cello music blend with each other, projections on three sides of the walls depict images of a filling the room with blues. It brings the disparate confident woman walking in sunshine and a blurry close elements together and is why it is so wrong to continue up of a woman in sexual discovery. Hung from the ceiling (or begin) the exhibition in the foyer. The whole brooding and scattered on the floor are silks, nets, feather boas and world is lost in the space that is, by definition somewhere glitter. Already there is something nostalgic about the for coming and going. Bustle doesn’t mix with the singular piece - the girl is, to herself or to someone who once inward mulling that melancholy demands. That aside, knew her, a memory. The glitz is tinged with sadness as however, the exhibition pays moving, honest and raw the mesmeric images play over and music beats on. homage to the Noonday Demons. (Ruth Hedges)
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