Welding together air and plastic Menzies creates forms that are delicate to the point of fragile - they grip walls, span corners, and if found freestanding, appear stranded or abandoned. These proliferating organic elements suggest a dark disturbing pathology as they cling together for support. The visceral plastic, mimicking as it does the vulnerability of the human body, can be read as commentary on a world where we are increasingly socially and culturally isolated. Attachment and bonding appear as fraught and perilous processes and all seems tentative and transitory.
“We’re talking about learning to live with the modern age,” Bruce believes. The modern world has many incredible benefits, but it also brings with it a source of deep stress that is unique: dislocation. “Being atomized and fragmented and all on [your] own – that’s no part of human evolution and it’s no part of the evolution of any society,” he told me.
(Johann Hari - Chasing the Scream)
Exhibition details:
Opening February 22nd 6-9pm
continues to March 11
