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Goth Moth
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Goth
Moth
Emma
Talbot, Stella
Vine, Tobi Deeson, Cathy
Lomax, Alex Michon,
Nicky
Magliulo,
Mimei Thompson, Shane
Waltener, Claire
Pestaille
November
20 December 19 2004 Fri Sun 1-6pm
Private View Friday 19 November 6-9pm
With 'Dark Covers' by Esther Planas (Dirty Snow) at 8pm
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Arty,
Crafty, Web - Shane Waltener
Sheering
Elastic and William Morris Wallpaper |
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The
Witches After Party - Claire Pestaille |
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One
fluid gesture
Like stepping back in time
Trapped in amber
Petrified
And still not satisfied
'Teenage Angst' - Placebo |
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We
live in a Gothic age Angela Carter once claimed. Gripped by
deadly phantoms, real terrors loom in our day-to-day hinterland of
horror with its litanies of poisonous gasses and shadowy fe-fi-foe
monsters.
Back from the dead Gothic, the darkling underside of logic and reason
returns with the flare of gory romanticism.
In the midi-minuit fantastique of Goth Moth, Wuthering Heights
meshes with murderous Myras moors, psychobilly death dolls substitute
Mary Shellys dead babies, a dark inheritance of historical appropriations
replays Goyas witches and ritual abuse in Liphook recalls suburban
horror. Adolescent fantasy Goth girls are culled from magazines, as
psychological terrors stalk the artificial landscape where knitted
cobwebs in eerie corners subvert their cosy-craft roots. Iconic dark
portraits identify with their subjects troubled souls and diaphanous
white dresses float like malevolent changelings.
In the once upon a never-never antechamber of murder, dead babies
and treachery these artists are drawn, like moths to the flame, to
the darkly mysterious possibility of things not ending happily ever
after.
The sleep of reason produces monsters -
Los Caprichos
- Goya (1799) |
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Untitled
- Mimei Thompson |
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Psychobilly
Death Doll
- Alex Michon |
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Gothic
- Emma Talbot |
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