Festival VISUAL ART
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HITLIST THE BEST EXHIBITIONS
✽ Katri Walker: An Equilibrium Not of this World Film works that capture
the experience of running. See review, left. Edinburgh College of Art, 651 5800, until 1 Sep, free.
✽ Ana Maria Pacheco: Memória
Roubada Intense meditation on purging and healing by the Brazilian artist, exploring how power can attempt to crush the will of the people as a greater spirit triumphs above it. See review, page 125. St Albert’s Catholic Chaplaincy, 650 0900, until 30 Aug, free.
✽ Game Changer Series of installations that quietly subvert the entire notion of exercise regimes in this offsite show by the Collective Gallery. See review, page 125. Collective: Offsite, Meadowbank Sports Centre, 556 1264, until 1 Sep, free.
✽ Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands A major retrospective of paintings exploring themes of place, identity and boundaries from the Scottish-born artist. Scottish National Gallery, 624 6200, until 3 Nov, £8 (£6).
✽ Fiona Banner: The Vanity Press
Three new videos exploring publishing and performance, as well as Banner’s fascination with flight and the military. Summerhall, 0845 874 3001, until 27 Sep, free.
✽ Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations Fascinating exhibition
full of collaborations with some of the most compelling modern artists of our time. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 248 2971 / 2849, until 22 Sep, free.
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R T A K AN EQUILIBRIUM NOT OF THIS WORLD Katri Walker’s heart-pounding exploration of the experience of running
C ommissioned as part of NVA’s Speed of Light project for last year’s Edinburgh Festival, Katri Walker’s series of filmed diptychs builds up into a heart-pounding evocation of both the experience of running and the runner’s particular communion with nature while their body is at work. In a darkened room with two large projections placed alongside one another on the floor, we first see the artificial peaks of a heart rate monitor next to the jagged natural heights of a mountain range, then microscopic views of blood vessels and branches.
The final segment is the one which should remain in the mind most, though. On the left, a female figure breaks into a run,
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the fixed side-on view clearly defining the shapes her body makes as it speeds up and then slows down. Intercut with this is a vivid MRI scan of an actual, beating human heart, while alongside it we follow a track up a mountain hill, fiddle music blaring and only the venous thread of the track stretching before us as stunning scenery lingers just on the periphery of the lens’ vision. It’s all stunningly shot, and an evocatively constructed recreation of the single-mindedness required for physical effort. (David Pollock) Edinburgh College of Art, 651 5800, until 1 Sep, free. ●●●●●