fake fur, sound loop
beach hut installation
140x200x140cm
©2009
lustrouschemistry/
paul hearn
lack is a black hole that takes on the personality of a bournemouth beach hut. taking inspiration from jonathan lethem’s novel “as she climbed across the table” the cocooned fur environment allows viewers to enter in to be surrounded by the deadening, absorbing but also comforting blackness.
when inside the black absence, a muffled looped recording of khachaturian’s adagio from spartacus can be heard from behind the fake fur. this doctored version of the rhapsodic composer’s best known piece is the sound that a black hole, almost certainly, makes when you pass its event horizon.
so why a black hole? and why in bournemouth? well perhaps this should be left to the spectators to draw their own conclusions. perhaps the immense gravitational pull is something we wish to avoid? or perhaps with its warmth and softness it is something we wish to be sucked into, never to re-emerge? either answer might do, or possibly in the quantum universe of such super-massive authority, both?