GALERIE LUCY MACKINTOSH
ARTISTS
SHOWS
INFORMATION
EVENTS
ARCHIVES
Stephen Felmingham
touching: clear
Stephen Felmingham
Vernissage le jeudi 13 décembre 2012
Ouverture du 14 décembre au 2 mars 2013
touching clear
My recent work is a response to the bunkers and installations that were part of my childhood in the militarized landscapes of the East of England.
I grew up amongst the airbases and missile sites of the Cold War, living with the threat of a war which would be final. Part of this landscape were the hilltop observation posts of the Royal Observer Corps, underground concrete rooms occupied continuously between the late 1950’s and 1992 and covering the United Kingdom in a consistent network. At its height the network consisted of fifteen hundred posts, arranged in groups of four, able to triangulate nuclear blasts and fallout paths in the event of a nuclear attack which were passed to the civil defence system. These underground places still exist today, in varying states of abandonment and decay.
Walter Benjamin described the photograph as a ‘lightning flash of truth', a frozen instant of past and present. There is a similar moment in humans and animals who, when faced with overwhelming odds, activate a protective freeze response causing a paralysis. It is essential to discharge this (in small mammals it is sometimes seen as a violent twitching after the danger has passed) or the tensions from these events will, over time, cause other issues.
It is interesting to consider in light of this the cultural epidemic in the West of anxiety neuroses: it is also the case that the freeze response is remembered by the cells and can be inherited. Thus the short and violent twentieth century perpetuates trauma forward through the generations.
Show overview

Oculus
2010
Charcoal rottenstone and pigment on paper
150 x 120 cm

Transition III

Specula

Untitled
Placeholder

touching clear
floor drawing

touching clear
exhibition view

Transition I II & III

Specula & Oculus

Detail of touching
clear

touching clear
exhibition view

Tocsin
2011
Iron Gall ink on gesso
16 x 16 cm

touching clear
Archives

Stephen Felmingham
touching: clear

Michael Ashcroft
All The Rest Of The
Things In The World

Abbas Kiarostami
Pariyoush Ganji
Windows

You know I can't
sleep,
I can't stop my brain

HORST TAPPE
Portraits

Julius Baer Art Talks
by Sarah Thornton

NOTHING IS EVERYTHING
皆是虚妄
Li Zhenhua

Entropia ЭНТРОПИЯ
Maurice Schobinger

Lumen & Lux

The Tenth Sentiment
10番目の感傷(点・線・面)

Where Stands History

La Lumière d'Héphaïstos
au Château d'Aubonne

Jane Marsching Ice Out
Lalie Schewadron
Under The Bridge

Repons. EPFL
Rolex Learning
Centre

Art Dubai
Charlie Koolhaas
Michael Ashcroft
Camille Zakharia

Madelon Vriesendorp
EPFL Rolex Learning
Centre

People Don’t Do
Such Things!

Les Urbaines Festival
Doris Lasch
& Ursula Ponn

"Room for Thought"
Madelon Vriesendorp & Charlie Koolhaas

Welcome to Colorful

Back Yard, concept
by Veronika Spierenburg

"Stalingrad Volgograd Series"
Maurice Schobinger

"Sweet Alpine"
Michael Aschroft

Love With
Unconfined Wings

"Duplicate Array: Objects/Buildings/Plans"
FAT, Fashion Architecture Taste

eArts Beyond
art fair Shanghai

Rememory
Tomoko Yoneda
Gauri Gill

Grands Paysages
d'Europe
Wide European Landscapes

Offspring /
Newscocoons

"Home 2"
Olaf Breuning

"INIMITABLE"

"Functional Escape"
Ingrid Hora
"Mix Media"
Lukas Wassmann

Working Space II

"Whistling Dixie"
Are You Meaning Company
Peter Liversidge

"Home Alone"
Juan Bolivar

"Everything Material
Something Immaterial"
Design

"Everyone has his day
and some days last
longer than others"
Naofumi Maruyama & Francisco Sierra

Ensemble Babel
Concert

what we talk

"Eau Sauvage" part II
Fieldgate, London

"Knochen Regen"
Sandrine Pelletier
Lauris Paulus

"Altneuland"
Justin Hibbs

"The Return of the
Seven Samurai"
Grizedale Arts

"COCOSOCOASOCO"
Ryota Kuwakubo & Reico Yamaguchi

"When Life Began"
Michael Ashcroft

"To Infinity,
and Beyond!"

"Recess"
Group show

"Can Buildings Curate"
Newbetter

Eau Sauvage

Ayumi Minemura
Are You Meaning Company

"Erscheinungsformen des zweidimensionales Raumes und deren Umstände"
NORM

"Studies for the Consumption"
Perfektron
Ryota Kuwakubo & Reico Yamaguchi

10 puissance 24

"What Birds See"
Christian Vetter

"Bee Vessel Wax Wave"
Stephen Felmingham

News From Nowhere

An evening's event
Décosterd & Rahm

Alexandre Hollan And Also The Trees

"Qaqortok - Niseko"
Joel Tettamanti

"BD Origin"
Büro Destruct