All about perception

An art exhibition designed to alter and enrich our understanding of perception and the human-scale will open on Leeside next month.

Internationally renowned artist Corban Walker plans to disorientate and reorientate visitors to the Crawford Art Gallery with his new installation ‘As Far As I Can See’, which runs from 15 October-15 January.

Walker, who is based in Ireland, will bring his distinctive sculptural and installation works to the gallery’s historic Gibson and Long Room galleries.

In removing the significant collection works from the part wood-panelled Gibson Galleries, Walker will create a new work responding which addresses the interplay between space and perception. Consisting of a mirrored installation, the work simultaneously disrupts and constructs alternative conditions where the viewer may become part of the object.

Walker will also reprise his iconic ‘TV Man’ installation, to be placed mid-way on the gallery’s nineteenth-century grand wooden staircase. The installation sees Walker’s image displayed to scale on a 65” LCD screen. Walker’s specific philosophies of scale and sensitivity to local and cultural contexts are central to how he defines and realises his work.

Commenting on Walker’s past work, artist and critic Brian O’Doherty wrote: “Corban Walker establishes himself as measure of his own art as body as mirror, module, standard. With this insistence – it is nothing less – he remakes his environment according to his own measure.”

This exhibition is curated by Dawn Williams in collaboration with the artist, Corban Walker.