Other Sights

‘Other Sights’: An exhibition about small failures. Developing the themes explored in Alice Corile’s first solo show, ‘Oversights’, it features work stemming from anecdotal accounts of errors and materials deliberately being misused.

On cupboard doors were little pale squares that, from a distance, appeared to be intricate sections of lace. Looking closer these squares were actually fly stickers, complete with decaying wings and other insect parts gathered on the surface. Source images of these traps, from the Artist’s family kitchen in Poland, are the starting point for a process of transformation in which the disgusting reality of rotting flies are elaborately sewn and printed, slowly becoming their delicate interpretation.

This playful deception and visual misdirection deliberately mirrors the Artist’s misunderstandings of the real world. She suffers, not only from poor eyesight, but also a very poor grasp of her family’s mother tongue. Conversations with her grandparents take the form of gestures and stilted linguistic exchanges. Things are missed. Mis -translated, -identified, -understood. This mis-view of the world invites us to not only question what we see, but also what we hear.

We strain our eyes, we strain to listen. In making sense of what’s around us, we see what’s not there, we get things wrong. Occasionally when something isn’t clear we make it up. We fill in the gaps. Works from other related projects will be shown alongside this new body of work.

The Island gallery, Thursday 25th to Saturday 28th April. The exhibition will be open 12-5 every day, with the exception of the evening of the 26th, as there will be a private view (6pm-9pm)