It is interesting that when we talk about artworks we try to refer to the ideas 'behind' the art. Maybe we could grasp those ideas directly if only the art wasn't in the way. Of course there is nothing behind the art, and ideas pervade all of space inside, outside, and between. The ideas in the space of this exhibition concern consciousness, evolution, and the interplay of feeling and knowing. Here are some shadows; a tree, a rock, words fading on a wall. Some are almost realisable as objects and can be easily seen and touched, some seem objective but are really only collections of words. Other collections of words make no pretense of objectivity but flow between the fingers uncontained, and all around is the white space, glowing and vibrant and eyeless.
Fred Mcvittie is the programme leader for Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire.
