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This catalogue designed by Dave Merrilles-Keely was first published to document the Seeing Walls Art Exhibition at the Vanguard Gallery in Shanghai in 2006.

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Abstract

The publication documents the exhibition, nature of the collaboration and element of cultural interaction involved in the Seeing Walls project. It aims to situate the work and the exhibition as a whole within a relevant theoretical and critical framework.

The installation (exhibition) was constructed with the notion of creating ‘little visual disturbances’ within the field of vision – disturbances that mitigate against an overall unifying impression of the ‘show’. The intention of simulating a self-conscious pictorial ‘fracture’ (hence ‘seeing walls’) comes out of problem-finding in conventional artistic, studio based methodologies. The pieces in this installation consist of a loosely interlocking ‘mesh’ of especially constructed objects, wall drawings, ‘ruined texts’ and video, often with urban or domestic connotations.

Disciplines

Art Practice | Contemporary Art

Recommended Citation

Shepley, A. and McClenaghen, J. (2006), Seeing Walls [Exhibition catalogue]. Vanguard Gallery:Shanghai published by Glyndŵr University,Wrexham