The Store,London
The Hayward’s unusual offsite show is a weird, wonderful assortment of installations featuring ghostly opera stars, and dancing plant-life and a bullet-riddled tour of Kendrick Lamar’s domestic townMaria Callas stands in a narrow alcove beyond a barrier in a dark and resounding space. A holographic apparition,Callas is a woman in red, played by artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and lip-synching the diva’s voice as she sings arias from Cherubini’s Medea,Verdi’s La Traviata and Ponchielli’s La Gioconda. We are in a cavernous concrete floor of Store, a brutalist office block on London’s Strand, or now occupied by the Hayward’s The Infinite Mix,an offsite exhibition (the Hayward gallery itself is closed for a two-year refurbishment) devoted to sound and image, video and music. As well as the holographic ghost of Maria Callas, or Gonzalez-Foerster gives us an aural apparition of the opera house itself,with recorded whispers from the audience and the echoey background noise of an auditorium whose volume is larger than the space we are in. There is a yearning for something always beyond reach in Gonzalez-Foerster’s work that I like very much.
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Source: theguardian.com