Maelstrom

June 26 - August 2nd 2003 | Wednesday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm

Eric in Conversation with Hugo Worthy, Ian Prenelle, Philida Barlow and other guests Sunday 20th July 4pm - 7pm

'Maelstrom'

Eric

Prenelle present the first solo exhibition by Eric.
The show includes work in sculpture, photography and video.
The show explores the thrilling yet nauseating vertigo of escape, the compulsive fascination of catastrophe and our recurring dreams of liberation even to the point of dissolution or disappearance.
On the upper deck of the gallery Eric is constructing a gigantic launch pad made from welded and bolted steel, extending over the water, beyond the safe limits of the boat.
In the main gallery there will be works in sculpture and photography suggesting other means of escape, getting lost, being liberated or being forgotten by the rest of the world; a barrel for Niagra falls, a flooded causeway, a gangway to nowhere.
Eric received an MFA sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2001. His work appeared in New Contemporaries and he has exhibited in a number of group shows, in London and Berlin, including two previous shows at Prenelle. He is part of the engine group of artists.
Eric’s work often resembles familiar objects of furniture or architecture, estranged, distorted and enlarged. Appearing as if not actually made for human use, they confront us with the alienation and restrictions of modernity and the tangential efficiency of much technology. These objects and images appear to represent a kind of solidity and permanence but remain ambiguous follies, symbols of our struggle for points of reference or departure in the maelstrom of imagery which forms our world.

Click here for Falling or Flying? an article written by Hugo Worthy.