JANE LANGLEY / JENNIFER WRIGHT

Space Craft
- an installation for the Eagle Gallery

11 November - 3 December 2004

Day light no longer pervades the space, just information, transmitted as visual data.

Jennifer Wright and Jane Langley use their work to transform the gallery, sealing off the room from a notionally collapsed 'exterior world'. Shutting down 'real time’ from the outside, the artists draw our attention to the space as a continuum of shifting patterns.

Using digitally manipulated photographs printed onto acetate, Wright blanks out the city street, normally visible through the gallery’s windows. The real world ends here as all movement is arrested and viewpoints are transcribed into
codes and symbols, belonging not to some obscure mathematical equation but to an embroiderer’s chart. Patterns start to migrate, falling from the windows, becoming caught up in other surfaces, blending and spreading like particles.

Inside this hermetic arena we view another kind of evolution as Jane Langley's circular paintings imply a number of potential readings. As embroiderers’ hoops they use the imagery of stitch, fleshing out the code, making it physical. Read as 'portholes' they represent the world on the other side of the wall,
confounding our sense of scale and becoming microscopic landscapes.

Langley and Wright have researched and exhibited together over the last four years. United by their interest in incorporating different visual languages within their work and reclaiming the art of stitch, this is their first
collaborative installation.