DEXTER DYMOKE : A Rain of Stars

6 Jul-12 Aug 2012

Overview

Working in a classical sculptural idiom, Dexter Dymoke's practice explores the correlations and tensions between objects, materials and their engagement in space - he describes his work as an engagement with a discrete but rigorous conceptual enquiry into the symbolic and metaphoric role of materials. Through a wide range of sourced, transformed and crafted materials, his practice recalls the notion of inter-relationality - an exploration of the concepts of opening, appropriation and communication relative to intersubjective (1) values. Dymoke's instinctive and material-oriented process of creation leads the viewer onto a mental journey where metaphors and other improvised narratives smoothly intertwine to open a new logic while reinvestigating the symptomatic image. The viewer is invited to think about the underside of visual representation as well as the idea of representation as a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction (2). Forms, textures and images are all deployed without prejudice in a restless exploration questioning the way in which we read what we see.