Cornelia Parker - Neither from nor towards scuplture - Oriel Myrddin gallery
Mar 20th, 2007 by fine art dealer
The Oriel Myrddin gallery in Carmarthen is showing a work from the Turner prize nominated contemporary artist Cornelia Parker, entitled ‘neither from nor towards’
The cryptic title does not prepare the viewer for what they will see as they walk into the gallery. Parker has taken the remaining bricks of a house eroded away on the cliffs of Dover and suspended them in the air.
The house fell onto the beach below, where the sea has eroded them further into the irregular shapes seen in the gallery. Parker has arranged them in a simple house shape, returning the bricks to a semblance of their original purpose. Whilst aping the house they once were, they no longer perform any function related to a house.
The piece suggests ideas of death in life, the continuing to subsist as a shell whilst the original purpose, drive and being has already left - like the effects of alzheimer’s in human interactions.
The sculpture hangs from the ceiling, continuing the fragile existence the house originally enjoyed on the English cliffs. A meditation on life, death and the delicate link between the two that all humans suffer but tend to ignore.
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