Art in Touch presents: Just Under the Surface, the Crypt

until 19 May 11 (ENDED)

The Crypt’s current occupants require and request that you tread slowly; to walk patiently through the eerie subterranean galleries. ‘The Crypt is the 5th collaborator’ mentions the press release and I couldn’t agree more. The exhibits/films/sculptures are not what they are themselves but what they become inside the Crypt, whose bricks are often the canvas. Water, phantoms, unsettling noises, hanging gardens, animated headstones, are all there, as long as you take the time to see them.

Tereza Stehlicova’s expanded cinema is a beautiful film, straight out of the gothic tradition. It didn’t take long until I was immersed in the collective’s claustrophobic garden of death. Branches and ivy, like little claws escaped the projection every so often, making me nervous. ‘That’s it, nothing more really happens’ said a young student to her visiting parents next to me in disapproval. She hadn’t noticed the forest coming to get her.

other info:

http://www.cryptgallery.org.uk/current_exhibitions.htm

http://artsphere.co.uk/2011/05/art-in-touch-presents-just-under-the-surface/