At Stantonbury Campus, the work of artist Spike Wyn-De-Bank will be taking over the gallery space from Monday (July 6).
His show, The desire to see (is stronger than horror or disgust) is a full-bodied affair!
Spike explained: 'The body has always been the site of great interest, from antiquity through to The body has always been the site of great interest, from antiquity through to contemporary culture; the roles that the body has played have changed over time, but with each generational shift attention has never waned, it has seen changes from being a symbol of mortality and sexuality, through stages of repression and great liberation.
There are several key aspects to how discomfort affects and operates on the body: these forces are both ones that are inherently read within the body and ones that are brought to it by external stimuli and the gaze of others. Primarily I’ve been exploring ideas concerned with the Abject, Uncanny and Ambiguity; these forces strongly affect the body, they are powerfully active upon the it, both the idealised body and the fragmented marginalised body.
The Abject and Uncanny are forces that I have attempted to keep in constant odds with throughout my studio practice; they are, and always have been inherently present within the images that I have utilized as source materials, this is something inseparable that may be either masked or diffused but cannot be removed.
I have frequently used pre, mid and post surgical images as sources for my drawings and sculptures, in all vanes of my practice my dealings with these images is one of masking, I repeatedly attempted to nullify these qualities by removing or omitting details of the images I was dealing with; however within each and every dealing with the Abject or Uncanny, it proves itself irremovable.
Through the exploration of my practice I hope to illuminate the contemporary crisis of confronting the body in close visceral contact.'
'The desire...' is available to view through to June 19.
