19/02/2023
‘pattern recognition’ opens on Friday 24th February 6pm-9pm and continues on Saturday 25th and Sunday 25th of February 12-6pm ArtLacuna] .. 48 Falcon Road London SW11 2LR. A collaboration between and ArtLacuna] as part of the RCA MA Sculpture annual festus programme facilitated by Melanie Jackson
The extraordinary house 575 Wandsworth Road provides a leaping-off point - a Georgian terraced house turned into a living artwork by Kenyan born poet, novelist, mathematical philosopher and civil servant, Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006). ArtLacuna, a Wandsworth based contemporary project space and artist-led studios carved out of a disused Coroners Office; provides the contemporary dialogue.
Trained as an architect, Khadambi Asalache wanted to find a self styled “head in the sand” solution to disguise persistent damp in his basement dining room. He went on to embellish almost every wall, ceiling and door in the house with exquisite fretwork patterns and motifs, which he hand-carved from re claimed floorboards and wooden panelling. Participating artists have been invited to create an immersive installation projected onto the walls of Art Lacuna gallery, whereby each piece will be displayed for 4 minutes every hour, resulting in 15 solo shows per hour during the 3-day exhibition. By exploring the syncopation and fusion of visual traditions of pattern making and motif, the exhibition reflects on the implications of pattern recognition in our lives.
Pattern recognition draws on cultural articulations of patterns across decorative, humanities, craft, and art traditions, as well as theories that place pattern recognition and inductive thinking as the fundamental basis of most features of the human brain including intelligence, language, imagination, invention, and the belief of entities such as ghosts and gods. The show also takes on board the uses of patter recognition in digital technology and artificial intelligence, such as speech recognition, text pattern recognition, facial recognition, movement recognition, and recognition for video deep learning analysis.
