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Mungo Thomson, Majestic Mountains 2019 (January), 2019

Mungo Thomson

Majestic Mountains 2019 (January), 2019
2-sided UV-cured print on samba fabric, custom LED lightbox
244 x 244 x 10 cm (96 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
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Thomson’s lightbox works display calendar pages as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. The images on the front and back...
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Thomson’s lightbox works display calendar pages as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. The images on the front and back of the page are collaged together with light – a calendar graphic with a photograph of a mountain, the grid of a single month embedded in an image of geological time. These images are printed on either side of a single piece of fabric and stretched over a custom LED lightbox at an immersive scale. These works consider geochronology from a precarious contemporary vantage, using everyday, art-adjacent materials that already hang on the wall. Like Thomson’s earliest wind chime works, the lightboxes pair evocations of elevated consciousness and spiritual pilgrimage with pragmatic home decor.

Les œuvres de Thomson, des caissons lumineux, présentent des pages de calendrier comme si elles étaient exposées au soleil, permettant au verso de la page de transparaître. Les images du recto et du verso sont assemblées par la lumière : un graphique de calendrier se superposant à la photographie d’une montagne, la grille d’un mois spécifique intégrée à une image de temps géologique.
Ces images sont imprimées des deux côtés d’un même morceau de tissu, puis tendues sur un caisson lumineux LED personnalisé à une échelle immersive. Ces œuvres abordent la géochronologie d’un point de vue contemporain incertain, en utilisant des matériaux et objets du quotidien, qui ont déjà leurs places sur les murs dans nos espaces de vie. À l’instar des premiers carillons éoliens de Thomson, les caissons lumineux associent des évocations de conscience élargie et de pèlerinage spirituel à une décoration intérieure pragmatique.
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