ARTIST Martin Lang
WHERE Rutherford Extension 12
WHEN Saturday and Sunday 14:00-20:00
Artist Martin Lang’s images occupy the threshold of our recognition. They allow us to believe in the places they portray, just as we believe many of the manipulated and enhanced images that surround us. They are loaded with potential meaning and open to being colonised by the viewers’ imagination and fears. Are they simply abandoned industrial spaces that exist alongside the landscapes we occupy? Or are they quasi-militaristic spaces that refer to science fiction, or terrorist training camps? Ultimately the viewer is unable to avoid the obvious fact of the work’s materiality. Rather than escaping into the picture, instead the viewer is caught in a dead-end meditation on the impossibility of escaping. Lang is studying for a PhD in the School of Arts.