Fiona Pardington: Eros & Agape at Suite

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Monday 19 April 2010

Fiona Pardington: Eros & Agape at Suite

“Consider Pardington’s latest objects of affection. Entertain, if you will, possibilities of what these objects may hold in common, aside from the clearly recognisable fact that they are plaster casts of human heads.”

From: Eros & Agape: The Knowing Photographs of Fiona Pardington Roger Boyce, March 2010

Fiona Pardington’s new work, on show at Suite from Friday 23 April 2010 in the exhibition Eros & Agape, has been described by Roger Boyce as a ‘canny equivocation of fact and creative embellishment driven by a sort of aesthetic amour de soi’.

Pardington's chosen subjects are two sets of plaster head-and-shoulder busts. One set of heads constitute a collection of busts which topographically illustrate the pseudo-science of phrenology - a metaphysically based system by which protrusions and other geographic features of the human skull are claimed to be predictive of human character and, ultimately, human behaviour.

The second set of heads are life (and death) casts of notorious men and women representing actual impressions taken from the living and dead flesh of French assassins.

Pardington’s works were created during a recent visit to Musée de l'Homme, Paris.

Her works are inkjet prints on hahnemule cotton rag paper lending ‘a chalky, muted early photo/lithographic feel to the images’ in a series of work that, shown alongside two never-before-seen Goldies, has been described as ‘epic’.

Eros & Agape will show from Friday 23 April to Saturday 15 May.

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