“Stanley Street Gallery presents an exciting group show Loss of Horizon. Curated by Claire de Carteret, this exhibition considers different frameworks of vertigo and disorientation as starting points to re-imagine temporal senses and a fragmented sense of being in the world. Bringing together five artists — Jacquie Meng, Neil Beedie, Claire Welch, Jemima Lucas, Brigitte Podrasky, writer Mitchell Krewaz for the exhibition text and a sound response by DJ Niko Plaskasovitis — Loss of Horizon invites different meditations on navigating destabilisation.”
“If the loss of horizon leaves us isolated we lose the ability to define who we are as the
characteristics of collective consciousness fade with freefall. Foucauldian concepts of
individual identity definition focus on interiority and the relation of the epistemic and
the experiential. The Earl of Shaftsbury locates identity in feeling and affectivity.
Jacquie Meng does not let either of these dead men, or any anyone else define how she
defines herself. The rupture required to remove the horizon is propelled by immense
forces creating a vibrant and dysphoric world. Jaquie taps into these forces, grounding
them in the real and the here-and-now. The blueprint for defining identity through
freefall is a repetition of ritual and the embracing of the radically expansive. ‘But can
we escape becoming dizzy? And who can affirm that vertigo does not haunt the whole
of existence?.’6 In the face of overwhelming vertigo, the horizon must be shattered again
and again for us to find unending freefall, and ourselves, in the new world.”
