Blind Spot: George Charman

BLIND SPOT

Blind Spot is a site-responsive installation for The Foundry Gallery. The exhibition presents five variations of space and form determined by the quincunx grid that traverses the gallery ceiling. Each week a new configuration of black and silver chain screens are re-installed, transforming the perspectival reading of the space. The variations are numerous, the variations of these still more so. This book presents 20 possible arrangements of space of The Foundry Gallery.

George Charman 2015

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Now the voice of the second driver reaches this central section of the veranda, coming from the direction of the shed; it is singing a native tune with incomprehensible words, or even without words.

The sheds are located on the other side of the house, to the right of the large courtyard. The voice must therefore come around the corner occupied by the office and beneath the overhanging roof, which noticeably muffles it, though some sound can cross the room itself through the blinds (on the south façade and the east gable end).

But it is a voice that carries well, full and strong, though in a rather low register. It is flexible too, flowing easily from one note to another, then suddenly breaking off.

Because of the peculiar nature of this kind of melody, it is difficult to determine if the song is interrupted for some fortuitous reason — in relation, for instance, to the manual work the singer is performing at the same time — or whether the tune has come to its natural conclusion.

Similarly, when it begins again, it is just as sudden, as abrupt, starting on notes which hardly seem to constitute a beginning or a reprise.

At other places, however, something seems about to end; everything indicates this — a gradual cadence, tranquility regained, the feeling that nothing remains to be said — but after the note which should be the last comes another one, without the least break in continuity, with the same ease, then another, and others following, and the hearer supposes himself transported into the heart of the poem… when at that point everything stops without warning.

Robbe-Grillet, Alain. (1959) Jealousy Grove Press, New York

Variation 1-20 (2015): 26cm / 36cm. Coloured pencil and graphite powder on acrylic coated paper

GEORGE CHARMAN / BLIND SPOT The Foundry Gallery 39 Old Church Street, London SW3 5BS UK Exhibition dates: April 30 ­­— June 04 2015

www.thefoundrygallery.org www.george-charman.co.uk