Current Exhibition:

Lesley Anne Price and Diane McLean: A Question of Presence

The aesthetic of nostalgia at Artspace gallery - 3rd February 2010

Artspace's first exhibition for 2010, a Question of Presence, opens on the 3rd February at 18h00. A two man show by Lesley Anne Price and Diane Mclean,

These two artists, working in distinctly different media and styles present a common aesthetic- that of nostalgia. According to Canadian academic Linda Hutcheon, "Nostalgic distancing sanitizes as it selects, making the past feel complete, stable, coherent, safe from 'the unexpected and the untoward, from accident or betrayal' in other words, making it so very unlike the present. The aesthetics of nostalgia might, therefore, be less a matter of simple memory than of complex projection."

These works invite not an intellectual response from the viewer, but a more visceral reaction that at once summons associations from the viewers own experience.

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