Courting Daylight in Saving Darkness

In his most elaborate installation to date, McClure references the seventeenth-century painting Interior With A Woman At The Virginals. Implementing the parameters of his cinematic performances, the gallery spaces provide turnings and windings and lines knot together against the wall. Throughout the exhibition period, the artist will continue to animate an accumulation of artifacts, accentuating the drift of each day.
‘Designed to parallel my journey from the “dark wood” to paradise, the exhibit is offered as a self-help primer for the fuller enjoyment of all metaphysical privileges that transcend the agency of my work. Marks on the wall, authority’s disembodied handwriting, will be dimmed and inverted during my correspondence course of mental disturbances, a dissemblance of the Chinese philosopher Mozi’s “collecting place.” Handicrafts of genius framed and hung as motionless vocabulary. All painting will seem dead by comparison. Vermeer’s windows will be preempted by the rediscovery of light from a primitive gloom. Predating the camera obscura, fugitive views through holes in a sieve and the gaps between tree leaves will be replayed. Space is necessary for constructive operation of similitudes, differences, credibility and consumption.’ (Bruce McClure) From Thu 22 to Sat 31-1, 11:00-18:00, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art €6, by showing IFFR ticket €3