Isolation Chamber Vacation, installation view. All images courtesy Transition GalleryIt is a well-established idea that sitting alone can often provide the right creative space for writing, composing music, making art—basically producing fruitful work that often is much labored over but usually conducive to quality work. The art of being alone—with its attached technological challenges and those encroaching feelings of having already abandoned our privacy—is the theme of an upcoming group show titled Isolation Chamber Vacation at Transition Gallery in London.
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Themes of solitude in Isolation Chamber Vacation take the form of a photograph of a female with her face-down next to a tin of meat. The photo, titled Reconstructed Meat Slices, is a pithy display of emotional emptiness, presumably left cold and alone besides a depressing can of foodstuff.Another piece is a haunting portrait of a woman looking out with black eyes from an extraterrestrial environment, all the while wearing a nude leotard and a scarlet wig. The image is a bizarre, campy visual but evokes that gnawing feeling of another life-form watching over humanity upon its little planet.
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