TELEVISION
25 March – 25 April 2009
69 South Audley Street, London W1
Television, Jim Lambie’s fourth show at Sadie Coles HQ, comprises a series of experiments in the transformation and perception of space and energy. The viewers’ sightlines are first disrupted as Lambie applies the latest incarnation of The Strokes to the floor. One of Lambie’s vibrant vinyl tape pieces, The Strokes’ fluorescent curves and swirls navigate the gallery’s architecture, undulating over and around every cranny and groove. Quietly, a number of “Sonic Reducers”, concrete blocks containing record spines, sink into the floor. From the walls, collaged eyes peer out from between mosaiced fragments of mirror that hypnotically expand and refract the surroundings. The eyes, extracted from their original contexts and left to swim in patches of bright colours, stare in every direction. In another piece the unexpected prevails again as a chair reveals itself to be made out of metal belts. Lambie’s disparate sculptural objects combine, in exhibition to form a kind of super-installation whose elements are bound together by the floor’s pervasive patterns.