DEATH VALLEY ESCAPES
Warren McLachlan
July 7th - August 26th, 2017.
Opening Friday, July 7th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Warren McLachlan
July 7th - August 26th, 2017.
Opening Friday, July 7th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
New sculpture and cast paper works.
Field Notes:
Taking into account the vantage points of various winged creatures, I imagined structures that could serve as homes or axis for non-human communities: bats, hummingbirds and other volant animals. How do these sentients view their surrounding world? Can we experience their ways of seeing.
I wondered, what if other available spectrums could be made visible? …..bird, bat, lizard, and snake... a spectral shift … a sensorial expansion…
I looked to portals / voids / panoptic nestings / inversions / fantasy scaffolds / ruinations / tombs / mines / undergrowth / overgrowth / diurnal / nocturnal /skies / earth / entry points / exit wounds / axis points / interiority / exteriority complexes / pink light / white light / white noise.
Monument as habitat? Takes utilitarian imagination…
Pilgrimage of the hummingbird, slumber of the bat,
Diurnal Sightings:
Rufous, Calliope, Black-chinned, Anna's, Costa's, Ruby-throated, Allen's, Xantus’
Nocturnal Sightings:
Aye-aye, badger, Bat, Bat-eared fox, Beaver, Binturong, Bilby, Black Rhinoceros
My research began in the Death Valleys and will end in the undergrowth, overgrowth and sediment of the East Kootenays…
Death Valleys (physical):
California 2000
Eastern Cape, South Africa 2003
Atacama Desert, Chile 2006
Obelisk*
Cat’s Eye*
Aquarium*
Tower Block*
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sleeper in the Valley - Arthur Rimbaud - 1870
Monumental shells shall be upended / suspended - an invitation to a natural world - fountains, columns, statues, structures, ruins all ..
A new spectral hour… ultraviolet waves rise up, new definitions and horizon lines appear at shifting vanishing points…
Kinds of eyes:
3rd
4th
5th…
- Warren McLachlan 2017
*Various works to be installed in the East Kootenays
Warren McLachlan (born Calgary 1975) lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. He received an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London UK in 2007 and a BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design. Current and Forthcoming exhibitions include: Structure for Observing Atypical Flight , Unit Pitt Facade Project 2017 , Inversus Mundi ( w/ Corbin Union) Unit Pitt 2016, Sisters ( w/ Jason de Haan) , Untitled Art Society, Calgary, AB, 2015 Concerning the Bodyguard, The Tetley, Leeds, UK (2014), Resonant Field, Truck, Calgary AB 2014,Centenarians, Bond House Projects, London, UK 2013; Century City, ESA Warren St , London, UK.(2013), Propeller Island Projects@ Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (2011), Monday Monday, Cell Project Space, London, UK (2010); Remnant Island, Hooverville Projects, London UK (2010) The Disconcerted Concert Party, Elevator Gallery, London, UK (2010), How We May Be, Art Now: Manton Lightbox, Tate Britain, UK (2008) Warren is a founding member of Corbin Union, an Alberta / BC Collective operating out of Corbin, B.C, a ghost town in the East Kootenays and organizes exhibitions and projects at Dynamo Arts Association in Vancouver B.C.
Field Notes:
Taking into account the vantage points of various winged creatures, I imagined structures that could serve as homes or axis for non-human communities: bats, hummingbirds and other volant animals. How do these sentients view their surrounding world? Can we experience their ways of seeing.
I wondered, what if other available spectrums could be made visible? …..bird, bat, lizard, and snake... a spectral shift … a sensorial expansion…
I looked to portals / voids / panoptic nestings / inversions / fantasy scaffolds / ruinations / tombs / mines / undergrowth / overgrowth / diurnal / nocturnal /skies / earth / entry points / exit wounds / axis points / interiority / exteriority complexes / pink light / white light / white noise.
Monument as habitat? Takes utilitarian imagination…
Pilgrimage of the hummingbird, slumber of the bat,
Diurnal Sightings:
Rufous, Calliope, Black-chinned, Anna's, Costa's, Ruby-throated, Allen's, Xantus’
Nocturnal Sightings:
Aye-aye, badger, Bat, Bat-eared fox, Beaver, Binturong, Bilby, Black Rhinoceros
My research began in the Death Valleys and will end in the undergrowth, overgrowth and sediment of the East Kootenays…
Death Valleys (physical):
California 2000
Eastern Cape, South Africa 2003
Atacama Desert, Chile 2006
Obelisk*
Cat’s Eye*
Aquarium*
Tower Block*
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sleeper in the Valley - Arthur Rimbaud - 1870
Monumental shells shall be upended / suspended - an invitation to a natural world - fountains, columns, statues, structures, ruins all ..
A new spectral hour… ultraviolet waves rise up, new definitions and horizon lines appear at shifting vanishing points…
Kinds of eyes:
3rd
4th
5th…
- Warren McLachlan 2017
*Various works to be installed in the East Kootenays
Warren McLachlan (born Calgary 1975) lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. He received an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London UK in 2007 and a BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design. Current and Forthcoming exhibitions include: Structure for Observing Atypical Flight , Unit Pitt Facade Project 2017 , Inversus Mundi ( w/ Corbin Union) Unit Pitt 2016, Sisters ( w/ Jason de Haan) , Untitled Art Society, Calgary, AB, 2015 Concerning the Bodyguard, The Tetley, Leeds, UK (2014), Resonant Field, Truck, Calgary AB 2014,Centenarians, Bond House Projects, London, UK 2013; Century City, ESA Warren St , London, UK.(2013), Propeller Island Projects@ Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (2011), Monday Monday, Cell Project Space, London, UK (2010); Remnant Island, Hooverville Projects, London UK (2010) The Disconcerted Concert Party, Elevator Gallery, London, UK (2010), How We May Be, Art Now: Manton Lightbox, Tate Britain, UK (2008) Warren is a founding member of Corbin Union, an Alberta / BC Collective operating out of Corbin, B.C, a ghost town in the East Kootenays and organizes exhibitions and projects at Dynamo Arts Association in Vancouver B.C.
