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Kate Gray
The Ghost Of A Flea
Collective Gallery

Kate Gray demonstrates that less is sometimes more. Her show at the Collective Gallery comprises five back-lit colour photographs set into the walls of a mini-labyrinth. If John Goto leaves some doubt as to whether joints and sutures are meant to be concealed or not, Gray makes it clear. The walls of her maze are obviously temporary.

The rectangles cut into them to receive the photographs are fairly ragged, the strip lights used to illuminate these images are exposed. The makeshift nature of this installation lets you know immediately that exposure of the mechanisms of illusion is what this show intends. The labyrinthine structure of the space (which is restated by the maze-like pattern printed on occasional wall-papered sections) suggests that you will have to find your own way to conclusions. Once primed in this way, it is possible to have a more complicated, more interesting relationship with the photographs.

These images are not didactic, their meanings are not signed, sealed and delivered inadvance. They seem to be heavy with significance - they are obviously staged, clearly posed - but it is not at all clear what their precise meanings might be. Gray hopes that the images might trigger some obscure memory deep within us, that vague sense that we have seen this before, but can't remember when or where. It is an uneasy presentiment that Lingers.

John Calutt 2001

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