>> london windows: selfridges – july 2008
Posted by The Wardrobe Planner on July 2, 2008
Frozen Symphony, an eye-catching installation by Aishleen Lester, is on display this month at Selfridges. The installation is hosted in The Wonder Windows, the space that since the beginning of the year has been dedicated to showing the work of up-and-coming artists who, in the words of the store’s creative concept manager Rebecca Bateman, “otherwise may not have been able to find such a high-profile space”.
From her biography: Aishleen Lester uses the language of mechanical objects combined with delicate subterranean forms – skins or ‘husks’ made of fabric and resin – in her sculptural installations. Like an unconscious visual or sensual memory, the sculptures offer themselves as vehicles to a fragile transitional space, where the rational and irrational collide, allowing elemental parts to take on a role beyond their commonplace function. The forms used in her installations appear familiar but displaced, existing in negative and positive. They are both slow mo & motionless as they adapt to their surroundings like true ‘relational’ beings, negotiating both floor and ceiling, volumic space and an ambiguous terrestrial depth. Their familiarity of form makes it possible to imagine how they these forms interacted and once moved. Are they the inner or the outer of something? Conceived to float above or below the water-line? Appearing or disappearing ?
[all images by blogagog]
