‘I do not wish to tell you what to think, nor tell you what you see,’ says curator Christopher Green at the beginning of the text for this group exhibition. Five hundred words later, he repeats the point.
Possibly about time, or space, or just plain walking – through time and space, presumably? – the show brings together an eclectic group of contemporary artists working across all media. Standouts include Vija Celmins’s exquisite photogravure print of a cobweb and Nigel Shafran’s melancholic images of banana skins, eggshells and other food detritus beside a kitchen sink. A page of writing by American artist Agnes Martin is as elegant as anything she ever painted (‘The ocean is deathless/The islands rise and die’). It’s just a bit hard to see what common ground they all share.