Beth Armstrong - Hippocampus, Rhodes University
‘Hippocampus’ suggests some possibilities, instabilities and limitations inherent in representation and visual perception. There is a propensity to see three dimensions over two; to interpret flat images as being spatial. There is also a tendency to want to recognise form and fix a meaning. In ‘Hippocampus’ Armstrong explores the becoming rather than being of image (seahorse), concept (cognitive map of space) and meaning. Although existing in space, the sculptures resist a fixed representation and suggest ideas of other spaces, in-between spaces, non-spaces that, at least in one’s conception and perception of it, never settles on a fixed axis of orientation.
Beth Armstrong’s Hippocampus originally installed at the 1820 Settler’s Monument, Rhodes University, will be travelling to iArt Gallery in Cape Town in April 2010.
These images are documentation of the exhibition’s original installation.
