Beth Armstrong

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'Hippocampus'

The word 'hippocampus' is the scientific name for a seahorse. It is also the name of a brain structure responsible for human beings' capacity to create cognitive maps of space. Although existing in space, Armstrong's welded wire sculptures resist a stable visual and conceptual representation and suggest ideas of other spaces, in between spaces, non-spaces and dream spaces. Beginning with the precarious image of a man-sized seahorse and growing out of the two denotations of the word, the works suggest some possibilities, instabilities and limitations inherent in representation and visual perception.

28 April 2010 - 22 May 2010