Visual Art
PHOEB CUMMINGS - FRAGMENTS Corn Exchange Gallery, until Thu 10 August
Domestic objects and interiors are loaded with emotional and psychological baggage and have provided many artists with fuel for creating disturbing, surreal creations. London based Phoebe Cummings' practice is inherently linked to the ‘domestic interior‘ and draws on this lineage. what she calls a “presence imprinted on places and their objects.‘
Trained in ceramics and glass, her meticulously made works range from tiny, subtle found object sculptures to monstrous, site specific handmade creations like ‘Carpet Floorpiece‘, designed for her home, in which giant loops of hand woven carpet unite to form an amorphous fever or drug-trip induced creature. In this way the works create fictions ranging from little mind tricks to full-blown hallucinogenic nightmares.
For the Corn Exchange, Cummings will display drawing, sculpture and installation. Along with others she will show the tiny sculpture ‘Landscape‘ in which minuscule planes land on a dusty old light bulb like flies. Is this a distorted childhood memory, or a fictional apocalyptic vision? Works like these play with micro and macrocosms. 'Stairs‘ is another handmade piece which will meander its way up the gallery staircase. clustered fat loops of woven carpet like multiple bunches of bananas grasping their way upwards. The worn, washed out colours in her sculptures and installations also draw attention to the half-forgotten, like sepia tinted or worn out photographs.
For an artist who previously lived in and created a range of installations for an old corset shop in Hackney, the historically loaded old Corn Exchange building seems a fitting venue and should allow Cummings curious creations - which she calls 'three dimensional stories' — to come to life. (Rosie Lesso)
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