The Undersides of Practice curated by Catherine Ferguson & Della Gooden for APT SHOTS
Damian Taylor | Della Gooden | Melanie Jackson | Helen Robertson | Caroline Kraabel | David Ryan

The beginnings of this exhibition lie in a reading of ‘The Origin of Perspective’ by Hubert Damisch, published in 1987 (first translated into English in 1994). In this book Damisch investigates linear perspective, an invention of Painting that employed geometry and the structured positioning of the viewer, to map our three-dimensional experience onto a two-dimensional surface; thereby rendering visual perception ‘truthfully’ via illusion.For the purposes of this exhibition, the curators have a slightly oblique angle of interest in all this. Namely, how through Damisch’s investigations a gap opens up between, on the one hand, the theoretical and technical achievements of Perspective, which are observable and understandable in the work (e.g. geometry) and on the other hand, the philosophical implications of what is experienced aesthetically (the phenomenological and motivated experience of the viewer).