LITO APOSTOLAKOU

SLUMBER

at the threshold of sleep

 

 

What does the sleep of reason bring? Navigating through sleeping states of being, Ali Darke and Lito Apostolakou present an exhibition of drawing, sculpture and moving image that centre on experiences of embodiment, the architecture of remembered space and the elusive shifts in consciousness at the borders of sleep, insomnia and dreams.

 

Lito Apostolakou’s background in history inspires a process engaged with multi-layered narratives about memory and place. Tactile and evanescent, her work seems always in the process of becoming. While transcribing the dream experience through the immediacy and flow of pencil marks, she infuses drawing with the plasticity of sculpture, experimenting with the kinetic of moving image and the enveloping nature of sound.

 

Ali Darke’s practice investigates the evocative language of psychoanalysis to create enigmatic, hybrid objects that make use of discarded materials and their inherent histories. Processes of cutting, stitching, covering and stuffing involves repetition, repair, reuse and mutation. This new work delves into the somatic and psychic disorientation that emerges from nocturnal experience, realised through drawing and the visceral materiality of sculptural form.