Alexander Mourant

The title points towards the notion, or the experience, of double taking: a glance, which often reveals something unexpected, or overlooked. This evokes the artist’s deep interest in the phenomena of sight, and provides us with a doorway, to enter his concerns regarding the nature of disbelief and the liminal, contained within the site, and the medium itself. Mourant continuously draws on the nuanced oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Smithson, to probe the ruin as a place of entropic energy; and to form analogous relationships between materials, both literal and metaphysical: glass and negatives; life and images; death and transfiguration. Through this consideration, the work feels as if contemporary archaeology; a vessel, where the shattering, and alchemic qualities of glass, become a breeding ground, suggestive of a grander metaphor, for the world and images we inhabit.