'DSS2'

Lyndi Sales is an artist whose concern with manners of perception and the possibilities of alternative realities results in complex, intricate installation works in a variety of often re-commissioned media.

Sales makes unusually esoteric reference to data visualizations focusing on the fragile passages between worlds and systems, and the mutability of the real and perceptual. Her work frequently evokes the suspension of time and heightening of perception that occur before a transformative moment of crisis or collapse.

Recently the artist has worked with scientific imaging systems and astronomical geometries in experiments with gestalt, constructing entanglements and distortions that bring together optical effects in productive visual tension. Concerning the threat to the artist’s vision of a knot in her cornea, ontological questions arise of the possibility of such a thing as a ‘whole’ picture. Experiments with the disappearance of time, the flattening of space, with vibrations of pattern and amplification of colour evoke the kind of shift in perception that mescaline once lead Aldous Huxley to call an encounter with ‘Mind at Large’.

In a country where social experience can often be so radically divided as to preclude conversation, it is of interest that Sales can be seen asking - in what is a perhaps counter-intuitive way - not what obscures our vision, but what we might be able to see with our eyes closed.

In these works Sales has created an extension of her progressively abstracted work that concerns itself with the mechanisms of ocular perception

At the edge of our habitual perceptions lies the possibility of reaching, for “something more, above all something different from the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.

06 February - 22 March