artist- Ali Darke
Ali Darke
Moving around Ali Darke’s sculptural installations reveals the landscapes, inhabitants and dramas of an inner world. Inspired by research in psychoanalytical and philosophical enquiry, her creative process confronts the subjective, fluid and infinite space of the mind with the limits of objective representation. Ali’s recent work takes the rituals and mythologies of the family and home as imagery and metaphor. In resurrecting found objects alongside newly created material, trusting free association and serendipity to make connections, she suggests new narratives and meanings while also discovering that which is uncannily familiar.
This reflects the distorting filter of memory when recalling past events, the unconscious slippage, exposing the emotional and psychological workings of the mind as it confronts the reality of the world.
ALI DARKE
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This reflects the distorting filter of memory when recalling past events, the unconscious slippage, exposing the emotional and psychological workings of the mind as it confronts the reality of the world.
ALI DARKE
[email protected]
Ali Darke’s sculptural installations reveal the landscapes, inhabitants and dramas of an inner world. Placing found objects alongside new material and playing with their scale, expresses something uncannily familiar. This reflects the distorting filter of memory to represent past events, the slippage, exposing the emotional and psychological workings of the mind as it confronts the reality of the world. She is exploring the transitional space between fantasy and reality, a liminal hinterland littered with the residue of lived experience. Here we encounter our relationship with objects and things, our construction of an ever shifting and elusive identity and the nature of dreams, fantasy and nightmare.