Nothing To See Here | Robyn Stacey
3 - 21 March 2021
Robyn Stacey’s exhibition ‘Nothing to see here’ opens at Jan Manton Gallery on the 3 March, 2021. The exhibition will present a series of photographs and lenticular images.
Made by projecting film onto a curtain, the works are as much about the curtain as they are about light and colour. ‘To draw a curtain’ can mean two apparently contradictory things: to pull it aside to reveal what it had concealed, and to pull it in front of an object, in order to hide it. A dynamic of concealment and revelation. The curtain is at once what must be withdrawn to see the truth; and what must be looked at to reveal it.
Essay writer Chloé Wolifson states:
‘For photographic artist Robyn Stacey, the curtain is a device designed to impart neutrality, yet nonetheless hangs heavy with resonance. This makes it the ideal subject for a pure exploration of light and colour while opening up possibilities beyond the visual.’
