PRESS RELEASE Mindy Lee Spatter Platter Project Space,Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN Exhibition: 12 April – 1 June 2010 Exhibited in tandem with the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition
Delicately gruesome remains spill enticingly across the space in a globular installation of painting and collage.
The paintings seemingly ooze from the corner of the space, dripping down the wall into collages of pigment and imagery. The strange shaped canvases provide a base for these abstract paintings, which appear to have grown extensions and additions. The installation sprawls across the space as the border between abstraction and representation melts away and the recognisable is omogenised into a new entity.
The collage seduces through squeamishness, tempting the viewer to identify images and to recall their severed origins. In each intricate yet amorphous mass, the eye begins to unpick a smorgasbord of limbs and things amongst edibles and wearables. Each mass infects others with its imagery, leading to a larger, deliberately spreading infestation of the space.
