Boo Saville
Trolley
5 February -13 March
London
E2

Being aware of our own mortality is an exclusively human trait, a burden and a price we pay for our consciousness. I think, in my work, I am interested in the seduction of beauty and contemplation of our situation through this quiet state.(Boo Saville)

The explorer-2009

‘Totem’, this new body of work encapsulates the unifying anthropological and archeological aspects evident in her work, and her representation of the deceased captured through an exploration of various forms of mark-making, itself a reflection of human expression and representation.(Trolley)

“There is beauty and creativity in the process of destruction. I am interested in decay not as a negative reduction but as a unifying symbol of matter, of our bodies. There is a clarity for me when something is stripped down to the bare bones and studied or just observed.”(Boo Saville)

Stand side by side with mortality, in deep dark black: These works are scaled up to draw us in yet intimate in their subject, they reach out with bleached skeletal hands and hold us steady with sunken eyes, empty of flesh.

Colourful/tribal works offer up to us the ceremony and remembrance of death, the event that holds us together and presents us with our Totem.

Saville’s treatment of surface has long fascinated me in achieving a luminescence and shroud like quality far beyond terms such as the over used ‘other worldly’. These images are anchored solidly with in our experience of being human.

How do we feel-2010

Jar head-2010