Aiming
For Heights
Red Wire
, 34a Slater Street (3rd-14th August 2007, 12pm-6pm)
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This is the second exhibition presented by the Liverpool artist collective
Red Wire and is a fantastic showcase for the underground art scene that
is currently thriving in the city.
I’m going straight for my personal highlight of the exhibition,
which is the fantastic installation by Nicola Fitzsimmons, entitled ‘Yesterday
Happened'. Lying in the centre of the floor is a figure made from twisted
cassette tapes. The lower body is constructed from a pair of denim jeans
and trainers but the upper body is a mass of tangled tape. I like the
messiness of the form and the idea that we are all made up from masses
of information that is formed in no particular order, yet all of the information
is needed to make us who we are.
Katie
Halsall has created a somewhat disturbing yet strangely captivating piece
called ‘The Ugly Child Watches’. It consists of small children
on a ledge surrounded by a sea of red and carries the words ‘The
Ugly Child Watches, The Happy Child Reads The Book'. Perhaps this is a
comment on the present social pastimes of a majority of Britain’s
youth.
‘Selected Sent Text Messages’ is a wall covered with printed
texts messages that were sent by Linda J Pithwood between December 2007
and July 2007. As I became more and more engaged by the messages I began
to get a picture of Linda without having any more information about her
character than the snippets revealed on the wall. It’s almost like
a window to the soul.
Redwire also produce a zine, which is distributed around Liverpool. For
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