The Floating Edge | Jess MacNeil

  • Jess MacNeil, Syzygy - The Gulls, 2008
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Pink), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Pink) [detail]
  • Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 2, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, The Swimmers, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, The Wall, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Aqueous Trace: Bondi, January , 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 1, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, The Floating Edge, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, Essaouira Port 1 , 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Hidden Cities, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Essaouira Port 2, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view
  • Jess MacNeil, Current Trace (Black on Red), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Current Trace (Black On Red) [detail]
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Blue), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Blue) [detail]
  • Jess MacNeil, Parallax Float (Southwark Bridge), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Parallax Drift (Lambeth Bridge), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 3, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Continuous Cities, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, Tower Bridge, 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Green), 2009
  • Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Green) [detail]
  • Jess MacNeil, Installation view

The Floating Edge
10 February - 14 March 2009

Situated at the point of contact between the individual and the city, this exhibition negotiates the interplay between physical and psychological space and the resonances of ephemeral experience.

Drawing on recent personal experience living in the London and travel further afield and closer to home, the work traces the movement of bodies through space, and the pliancy of space as it is traversed over time, translating these into manipulations of paint and digital video.

A cartography of disorientation emerges as the individual traverses the city; a succession of possible understandings of temporal experience, motion, place, space, the mutability of matter and the shifting perspective of the subject.