Animalia
11 December, 2012 - 10 February, 2013
The Long Gallery
Antoinette Ratcliffe, Cauterizing Schrodinger's Cat (2012), Installation (image by Glenn Welch)
Featuring Cauterizing Schrodinger's Cat (2012) by Antoinette Ratcliffe and works from the Collection.
'There’s something slightly seditious about Antoinette Ratcliffe’s work – it simmers somewhere between the simulatory and a return to the real. Her creatures are both instantly recognisable and somewhat incongruous: A new range of toys perhaps, inexplicably sent to the wrong place. Having arrived they’ve managed to colonise in faithful reproduction the minted narratives of the factory like an embodied presence. Except something’s not quite right, there was an accident perhaps or the delivery driver was really an alien and they were abducted into another dimension – whatever it was, they’ve had to travel a long way before they could finally arrive and be New. It’s not the shop they were promised, but they recognise cultures of display when they see them and toys know when they’re being looked at.'
Joe Citizen, 2012