On the table is a string of pearls. Each pearl carries
the reflection of you sleeping with the world
curling back behind you.
As you sleep the pearls
roll off the string, across the table, drop over the
edge and into the water, pearl after pearl slipping
off forever into the abyss, pearl after pearl slipping
off forever into the abyss, pearl after pearl slipping
off forever into the abyss, pearl after pearl –
you suddenly awake as the last pearl rolls out of
your reach. At this very moment, the last pearl
rolls off, into the unsearchable deep – at this very
moment, the last pearl rolls off, into the unsearchable
deep – at this very moment, the last pearl rolls off,
into the unsearchable deep – at this very moment,
the last pearl rolls off
Becoming a character is a solo exhibition at the Glasgow Project Room by Sarah Tripp. The exhibition title is taken from the title of a book by Christopher Bollas, Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience which informs the starting point for the exploration of identity, idiom, mood and transformation. The installation combines a 16mm film loop, a 35mm slide projection, sculpture, a collection of personal tokens with text-based works in low levels of lighting from dusk into the evening overlooking one of Glasgow’s busiest city center streets.
The installation draws together 9 works: David and prison / Women and prison, I borrow a painter’s studio, their tools and their materials / I borrow a sculptor’s studio, their tools and their materials / I borrow a writer’s studio, their tools and their materials, City Narrative, Before she speaks, Blight, 7 consecutive moods, Objects observed by candlelight, The second hole in his left ear and The rain and crying. These works are combined with a small, compact mirror (installed flush with the gallery wall) through which the exhibition is reflected. The exhibition includes photography by Francis McKee (7 consecutive moods), a response to a text by Alex Impey (Blight) and model making by Eona McCallum (Objects observed by candlelight).
Becoming a character was supported by the Glasgow Visual Arts Fund.