Art

The Marquise Went Out at Five O’clock

Suki Beg | Thursday 22 July, 2010 18:58

Edel Assanti Project, 276 Vauxhall Bridge Rd SW1V 1BB

There are so many parts to this exhibition’s press release, an enticing bundle including three jpegs, one pdf press release and an invitation. I’m enticed, but also slightly intimated before I even arrive at the Edel Assanti Gallery in Victoria.

Anyway, the gallery itself is a stripped office building located over three L-shaped rooms, a form which lends itself perfectly to the narrative theme of this group show. Edel Assanti is like a logical, central, lucky art tombola.

RCA Neomie Goudal’s photographs capture incomprehensible scenes, the unsettling settledness of a chair covered in fluff or unraveled twine. Stuart Bailes’ photographs are similarly epic and subtle, hinting at an unseen tension.

Adam Thomas’ carved book’s juxtapose an moment of text with the process and method of presenting it.

Meanwhile Jorge De la Garza’s collages investigate shape and representation in the most thoughtful and careful way.

Walking along the Vauxhall Bridge Road later, I see London’s scariest man foaming at the mouth with pupils like abysses. Some venues would charge for this experience.

The Marquise Went Out at Five O’clock continues until 5 September

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