Snapshot presents Snapshot 06: The Vulnerability of the Human Situation by India Clarke. Contemplating the relationship between mind and body through drawing, observation and painting, India’s work explores excesses of fragility and power.
Informed by her own experiences, as well as artists such as Craigie Horsfield and Marlene Dumas, she transforms and distorts memory, themes of illness, and death into speculative fiction. As a result, creating an escapism by subverting expectations towards the absurd and surreal.
The current developments of this project (seen as works in progress) invites an audience to rethink their concepts of comfort and safety. India’s series of watercolour sketches depicting a China doll with a facial tumour explores this by playing with concepts of identity politics, and reflections of the self and body. Reinforcing the instability of the human condition, her sketches and research attempt to communicate the fear that comes along with the constant mutation of life and its events.
India is a current second-year student on the BA Fine Art course here at LJMU.
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Snapshot is a permanent display programme of sequentially changing creative outputs. It provides an impression of each participant’s practice located in a liminal space in the School, where visitors only spend fleeting moments travelling to other spaces or waiting to enter classes.
The project is the result of an ongoing open call to all visiting researchers and practitioners, staff and students of all levels on all programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
It presents incomplete, transitory views of research-and-practice-in-progress; a window into a brief moment in time of a given academic year. The displays are selected on aesthetic criteria of how to best animate the space they occupy, projecting forwards in time the potential each work holds.
As the year progresses a living archive will develop on the concrete pillar next to each pair of vitrines, providing information about past and current displays.
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Snapshot is located in the reception corridor of John Lennon Art and Design Building, Liverpool School of Art and Design.