lidlewing

Here be monsters.
Artworks by lidlewing.

For walls Gallery
@ Miss Libertine
34 franklin street
15.12.10-29.12.10

‘Here be monsters’ was once written on maps, by cartographers of old, to describe an uncharted and therefore unfathomable area of unknown.

Science and nature and fiction make possible the belief that there are other worlds than these. Hallucination, deep space, the imagination, other places at other times, other reals and possibilities- monsters exist.

Lidlewing, like the psychonaut, is an explorer of sorts, a seeker, a traveller, a collector. The debris of the dead- Bones and skin and hair and fur and teeth are reincarnated, in a brutal taxidermy fashion, as trophy and idol and friend. The sculptures appear as if created by a long abandoned cargo cult pieced awkwardly back together with raw, misguided and irrational attention to detail from broken, chemically altered memories. Monsters are investigated, carefully collected, preserved, and arranged to convert the gallery into a museum of unworldly specimens and exhibits…-‘here be monsters’.

Specimen
Artworks by lidlewing

Hogan gallery
310 smith street
1.8.09-14.8.09

There are holes in reality where the monsters creep in.
The imagined bite and chew their way into existence and our world only to find that they cannot survive here…
lidlewing pulls them through but cannot save them for at the moment of their creation they are precariously on the verge of extinction. A hybrid species of animal/plant/toy that can only be collected, documented, preserved, and exhibited as specimens of things that 'almost' were.

Here, fantasy suffers and dies like the rest of us.