HackelBury invites you to an In Conversation between Emma Crichton-Miller, journalist, critic and writer, and Marcus Bury, Co-Founder of HackelBury, on Wednesday 25 February.
The conversation will begin at 6:30 pm and discuss the Starns’ working methods and their enduring engagement with material, process, and impermanence. This event coincides with our current exhibtion, A Tragedy of Infinite Beauty, a solo how presenting the works of Doug & Mike Starn.
The twins present new works which reflect on impermanence, perception, and the tension between beauty and destruction. The two series on view, Under the Sky and Everything Is Liquid, explore the overwhelming yet often unnoticed forces - atmospheric, emotional, geological, and cultural - which shape our lives.
The Starns navigate the world with the conviction that interconnection and interdependence are not abstract ideas, but conditions of being. This presents an exigence for them in their work — responding to the constant flow of objects in time, and reflect the dynamic forces of nature. Skies drift and billow, oceans crash, mountains rise — each moving at a different pace, from the immediate and fleeting to the glacial and imperceptible. From this perspective of shifting landscapes, the work pulls us inward through their intricacies of surface and gestural mark-making.
We look forward to welcoming you!
