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From: Eva Category: Exhibitions Date: 08 September 2008 Time: 11:43 AM Review: Terrace Annual 2008 We arrived quite late so the band had finished, the light was fading and the BBQ was over. I like the title of the show, it suggests desolation and aftermath so arriving late seemed appropriate. Signposting for the artworks seemed non-existent, so it was difficult to work out who was in the show or if there were titles somewhere, necessary to activate certain works. Still, there was a nice atmosphere. The exhibition was more about a social situation, reminding me of a lot of exhibitions I’ve been to which are more about being there than the work, but not because of a relational aesthetics agenda. The works inside were more ‘professionally’ mounted, video projections including a series of rather naughty watercolour blobs projected large, like rough n’ ready Marlene Dumas watercolours in black. I liked the way they faded from one to the other, suggesting a porno show starring splodgy ink people. There was also a video of a woman who looked mentally unbalanced with a voiceover that seemed to suggest that the artist knew that there were serious ethical issues with showing this footage, that seemed to have been collected on the sly, with a rather damning ‘look at this mad woman’ voice-over monologue. I’ve been searching on google to find out more about the artists or the place, but I can’t find anything.