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From: Vastin Pance Category: Art Date: 06 September 2009 Time: 04:10 PM Review: Simon Faithfull , any relation to Marian Faithfull?; I sit and watch as clouds go by ... Until September 20th Simon Faithfull's Gravity Sucks is on display at the BFI Gallery space beside the lovely lovely BFI southbank Shop. I saw the oblique Jane and Louise Wilsons echobeat outake of Stanley Kubrick's (Spice Oddity) which, indeed Sucked but not as hard as the gravitational pull that Marianne and Mick's boy, Simon experienced with his rather too knowing attempts at flight via balloonacy and to a large degree (it must be said) Whimsey. I hope no one is offended by these findings, I speak from the lips of a bottle of truth. Simon ! My dear boy, all that potential is lovely to witness and I'm sure , even better to personally experience...however, you Simon are a very interesting subject but mostly of interest to yourself...Now don't go thinking no-one is interested in your whimsical ideas as they are quite nice. The best thing I've seen in this little anti room Gallery is something by Patrick Kieller, it was spellbinding and consisted mostly if not entirely of old film footage, I enjoyed something else shortly after that , definately of ethnic interest but largely forgetable, so Simon...and I do not take these things lightly ,Please be aware that the idea of "Potential" is paramount in the content of your presentations and not in the inconclusive nature of something that is about as suggestive as