WALKING BLACK

Rosalind Lemoh

6pm FRI 24th August - SAT 29th September

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The centrepiece of Walking Blank is a sinewy deer suspended above bitumen rubble. Rosalind Lemoh has assembled the animal from a graphite-coated taxidermist’s mannequin, a cast set of antlers and a short, moulded tail. What are we to make of this trophy? It is at once familiar (a dark cousin to the flying reindeer of popular culture) and curiously repellent (a blend of flayed musculature and abbreviated curves). The sculptor has trapped her prey in an instant of mimetic ambiguity, coating the form with a sleek veneer that reveals it to be a ‘blank’ – a shape never meant, on its own, to reproduce the original.

Image: Rosalind Lemoh, Thicker than Water, 2012, Engraved glass, sump oil, paint, bitumen; three parts