Artists VOLTA NY 2008
Presented by: Riflemaker
1977, Brighton, United Kingdom
Like an unconscious visual or sensual memory, Aishleen Lester uses the language of mechanical objects combined with delicate subterranean forms _ skins or "ghusks" made of fabric, resin, sugar and weaving-string in her sculptural installations.
The forms offer themselves as vehicles to a fragile transitional space, where the rational and irrational collide, allowing elemental parts to take on a role beyond their commonplace function. Lester's installations appear familiar but displaced. Poised; existing in negative and positive, they are both slow-mo & motionless, seeming to adapt to their surroundings like true "relational" beings, negotiating both floor and ceilings, volumic space and an ambiguous, terrestrial depth. Their familiarity of form makes it possible to imagine how they these 'creatures' interacted and once moved. Are they the inner or the outer of something? Conceived to float above or below the water-line? Appearing or disappearing?
Aishleen Lester has exhibited at Riflemaker in London and at Nyehaus in New York. A major solo exhibition in planned in London for Spring 2007.
 Aishleen Lester, 'Arabesques' installation at Nyehaus New York, November, 2007 |