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KATE GRAY

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The Ghost of a Flea"
Kate Grays photographs in "Ghost of A Flea" subtly utilise computer manipulation to produce uncanny, dream like images. Some of them are reminiscent of sci fi film stills, others of Pre Raphaelite paintings. None of them are easy to pin down. All of them are strangely disorientating.

To reinforce the sense of cerebral vertigo induced by her photographs, Gray has built a maze like structure from rough edged plasterboard. The execution of the structure, which any DIY expert would refer to as botched, is perverse when set against the cibachrome slick appearance of the photographs.
Being able to see the guts of the show is enjoyable, rather like walking back stage, or being allowed onto a TV set. The neon tubes and reflective foil illuminating the photographs become exhibits in their own right, but again there’s something alien about their presence – like leftovers from an episode of Blake Seven.

Since its clean line redesign, too little has been done to challenge the ‘neutral’ identity of the Collective Gallery, consequently Gray’s intervention, which supports rather than distracts from her work, is timely and intriguing.

John Beagles 2001.

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