charlie barlow
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Without vision, Blanket dragged its damp, muddied body across gravel and greenery outside, sometimes pausing for rest. It then quietly crawled into, around and out of the gallery space, morphing shape and twisting organs while leaving trails of its path - a drawing with rich brown smears, clumps of clay and speckles of dry dust. The being is perhaps injured seeking shelter, with a blanket, a protective barrier, forming a frameless anatomy. Seemingly indifferent to the cause of the marks, a cleaner proceeds to mop the floor, returning the invaded space to its original clean state (roles of performer were switched from 'thing' to cleaner). Blanket opens concerns surrounding the relationship between material dirt and symbolic ideas of dirtiness, as well as thoughts about land, humans and animals, with mud collected from a nearby field and the site formerly being a farm.
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Mong Kok 5000
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Parched Limbs
Blank Expression
Alone, Together
​Ice Mopping
Bogland
Until
Grey
5 Ft 3
Phalanges
Blanket
Pestilence
Gargantua

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Mong Kok 5000 (The Uselessness of Heaven and Earth) 2018
​Mixed Media




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​© charlie barlow 2021
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