This week is your final opportunity to see
Phil Root's installation, Phantom Limb, at Spacex. The work has been put together specifically for
Spacex and is a fun but potentially thought-provoking exhibition.
As it says in the blurb, "Phil Root references history and memory, producing artworks through a process of intuitive layering and erasure of both physical and historical attributes."
The work originated in a collection of corroded and damaged coins. Phil has manipulated the coin images and explored the connections with trade and social labour, while producing blown-up pictures which could be distant moons or views through a microscope.
An eery soundtrack adds to the ambiguous atmosphere. Standing in front of the trestle table in the main gallery is, on one level, like standing on an alien craft - but with echoes of trading schooners from the distant past.
In the projection gallery a video tells the story of the Phantom Limb and there is a peek beyond at a hidden layer or image.
You have until Saturday 13th September to catch this spare but cleverly constructed show.
