DR. SUSIE LINGHAM

• Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

Gajah Gallery is delighted to announce its first solo exhibition by Dr Susie Lingham, interdisciplinary and independent thinker, writer, educator, curator, and maker in the arts. Entitled Thought Sample Return, the show presents a new body of conceptual sculptures by Lingham that probes the human mind, its capacity for reasoning, and the manner in which it perceives—acknowledging the unconscious mind as a deeper stratum that operates faster and more accurately than the conscious mind.

The artworks in Thought Sample Return stem from a synthesis of ideas and concepts that have occupied the artist’s imagination. From enigmatic hand sculptures to cored Britannica books, the works set off a chain reaction of associations spanning the breadth of phenomena that have pervaded human attempts at rationalisation. The succinct and eloquent sculptures facilitate encounters with space, 9me, nature, and the essence of knowledge, reiterating the gulf between perception and knowing.

Though far from representing a relinquishing of control to such an expanse of unknowability, the tangible attributes possessed by the artworks within the show in9mate the possibilities of coalescing such concepts into arrestable forms – even if we may never grasp them fully.