OK. Temporarily putting aside any conceptual framework I may or may not know from researching Jeremy’s work, this show is just beautiful. Wafer’s elegant use of the gallery; his textures, use of light and shadow; his play between earth and space; his ‘go’ between mappings of text, of ground, of image; all these add to a fantastic exhibition, where I felt like I was mostly floating.
Then, as I begin to reel in the promised conceptual framework, I realize that it is I who has already been pulled to it. His (literally) modular, mathematical and coded language festers in the back of our minds until we are jolted back to an unreality of illusive and allusive symbols.
Peaceful yet provocative, they cannot be tamed.
