In this collaborative installation, we worked with the physical characteristics of the exhibition space to question real and imagined states. With emphasis on making, material qualities and play, this immersive environment infused recognisable terrains with a warped perspective – resulting in an absurd manifestation of imagined forms. Objects were distorted and the boundaries between interior and exterior became blurred. Ultimately, finding quite familiar ground – the mountain may be forever out of reach.

White Mountain was kindly supported by CCA Glasgow and Hope Scott Trust.

Featured in The Skinny: CCA Highlights – November/December 2015

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A year on from group exhibition ‘SO IT IS’, YAKA took over the Project Room as a testing ground for the elusive theme of ‘Black Hole’ in order to explore possibilities within the collective.

Questioning temporal paradoxes, the strong gravitational pull towards the unknown, the emotional void within us all, and ideas of a body so massive that light itself cannot escape; the aim of the investigation was to form a loose foundation for ‘White Mountain’ –  an exhibition for the Intermedia Gallery, CCA Glasgow in December 2015.

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NOTIONS​

Emulsion and spray paint

Large scale painting that explores the idea of realising a symbolic physical form and language for particular experienced thoughts, situations and notions.

…SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES

steel

HALL OF FAME

steel, wire mesh, concrete

“It was meaningless what she said to me in the end, Eve told him. Not meaningless, he said. It had meaning because she said it. Even though you don’t know what she said, it had meaning because it went between you, from her to you. Yes, Eve said. It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn’t immediately comprehensible. That doesn’t mean it didn’t mean.”

- Ali Smith, The Accidental

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www.tessvaughan.com

A FLOATING ISLAND

Cardboard, video, sound

Thomas More coined the term Utopia, a distinct ‘no place’, that doesn’t exist and an idea that cannot exist in our corrupt world.  The removal of the isolated crannog from its natural state and through its reinterpretation within the artificial gallery arena, we see the idea of utopia at best become a phantom itself.  Its image becomes a mirage of an unattainable idea.

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www.katrinavalle.co.uk

YEN

Wood, aluminum, concrete

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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www.cargocollective.com/EmmaThomas

LAURIESTON WALK

Binaural audio recording; Duration: 17 minutes

Please put on headphones, close your eyes and come for a walk with me. It does not matter whether you are local or not. I certainly am not, I am just walking, looking and listening.

ONCE AGAIN, I COULDN’T HELP MYSELF

Grass seed, soil, sunlight, water, timber

Through the active use of germination as a sculptural process, the work scrutinises the common perceptions and functionality of sculpture. This ephemeral assembly, reliant on the surrounding atmospheric conditions and architectural features of the gallery, derides its own interior siting and queries humanity’s persistent desire to replicate the environment.

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www.jasperweinsteinsheffield.com

UNTITLED (follow me)

Tour/ performance

The procession will appear in the darkness of the night and in the cold. The conveyor will propose with conviviality, hot food and drinks to warm the bodies and take them on the road for a walk, discovering the neighborhood by night. Everyone will be allowed on the road, growing the procession; everybody walking together.

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www.manon-rolland.blogspot.fr

CLUSTER

Resin

Alys Owen’s sculptural practice experiments with a wide range of media. Her work explores the interrelationships between humans, animals and the natural world; creating immersive and escapist environments. These constructed realities question how we see ourselves in the modern world. For this site specific installation, the viewer acts as discoverer to new breeds of mycelia that infests the arch area.

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www.glasgowsculpturestudios.org/2013/11/27/alys-owen-2