31 August - 30 September 2001
Jane Simpson has spent the last eight years assiduously cultivating a dual vocabulary from the seemingly bromidic ranks of domestic kitchenware, chinaware and refrigeration. Somehow, in her hands straightforward presentations and re-presentations of utilitarian objects were becoming heavily sexualised and ambiguous, but also passive and tactile. A duplicitous language of not obvious syntax and intimacy was growing up around them. Alongside these simple and inert combinations, however, Simpson was also making complex and fluxional wall and floor based sculptures, hooked up to refrigeration units. For the duration of the exhibitions, these pieces were given a transitory existence that ebbed and altered with the gallery environment, and in the case of In Between, simultaneously thawed and froze itself and the butter it had been smeared with. In the last three years Simpson has also started making video projections and animations of Still Life arrangements and domestic equipment, directly based on her Still Life Tupperware photography.
For her exhibition at One in the Other, Simpson is picking up on an end of summer theme mounting two refrigerated ice cream cone-shaped sculptures on the outside of the gallery and exposing them to the elements for the first time. In the gallery a video projection onto Tupperware will duplicate the objects and imagery of the film in a variegated, changing light, and alongside will be an animation of rubberised objects. Also, in the show are some of Simpson's trademark rubber cast compositions and Morandiesque Tupperware photography.
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One in the Other 2001
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One in the Other 2001
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One in the Other 2001