Exhibition extended until 07/01/18
Please call 07834718646 for opening times.
Please call 07834718646 for opening times.
MARTINA SCHMUEKER
ATTIC
Closer to heaven, there is a wooden staircase leading to a trapdoor. To get into the staircase, open the downstairs door. Check if anyone is coming, then use the big old double key and turn it, push it through the lock, get in, pull the door shut and take the key out. Open it, push through, close it. It’s pitch black inside. Listen. Don’t use the light. Now, walk up the stairs and open the trapdoor- this is the worst bit, nobody knows what is going on up there. The wind comes in. Close the trapdoor and lock it.
The attic is a long rectangle, with one side wall missing. A wooden wall with small windows on the other side. A roof on top of the roof with one wall taken out, the space open to the black void beneath. The road behind the fence at the far end, the river, the lights from the gas station just visible through the trees. Some of the planks creek. The mattress is in the far corner, as far from the trap door as possible. It’s never really quiet. It is really quiet. No lights on this side. Glass breaks, it could be one of the windows in the main building. Somebody is breaking in. Or it’s the foxes. Or the wind. Or the ghost.
Martina Schmuecker is an artist based in London. She holds degrees from the Royal College of Art, London, and the University of the Arts, Berlin. Exhibitions and performances include Now Gallery London, APT Gallery London, IMMA Dublin Artist Residency, Malta Contemporary and Studio Voltaire Members Exhibition.
Preview:
Friday the 1st December 6-9pm
Open by appointment:
Saturday 2nd- Thursday 7th December
Please call 07834718646 for a visit
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