DOUBLE

A study of twos. Two artists and two mediums bound together to investigate  The Double. 

Cal Foster approaches doubling in a literal sense. Photographs in themselves are a double; a recreation of what it represents. Sourced imagery from unknown lives lived are born again and reimagined through a process of fragmentation and reconstruction. Foster splits, slices, tears and re-connects photographs to displace and replace pre-existing memory. 

In contrast, Hannah Atherton grapples with conceptual and psychological forms of doubling. Her paintings, derived from film stills, capture and contrast both internal and external dialogues. Despite the staged and fictitious nature of the works, they maintain a feeling of intimacy and familiarity. Her brushstrokes balance looseness with precision, reflecting the boundless and paradoxical nature of contradiction.

The vastness of doubling is impossible to encapsulate within the scope of an exhibition of thirteen works. Doubles are ubiquitous, and can be found in the simplicity of a shadow, or a reflection in the mirror. Duality is, ultimately, our biology. A single cell must split into two in order to expand.