Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road
E8
020.7254.4202
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Joel Tomlin, from Oh Vienna, Courtesy Transition Gallery
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22 Mar 2008 – 20 Apr 2008
Fridays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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Tube: Bethnal Green
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Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams provided the overriding critical context for much of the 20th century's cultural output. Though the discipline Freud helped to invent has since disregarded many of his views, Zoë Mendelson and Joel Tomlin's joint exhibition exalts the bespectacled Austrian's influence on art. The show gets playful with history by whimsically foraging material: Tomlin harnesses raw tapestry canvas, luminescent colour and ethereal outlines to explore liminal states of consciousness, blurring distant memories with remembered dreams. By contrast, Mendelson's '20s kitchen cabinet, Scheherazade's Sideboard, utilises painted eggs, drawings, paintings and panoramas to analyse both meaning and medical "truth".
