This question - posed by psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek in his film The Pervert's Guide to Cinema., in relation to the film Psycho - resonates and finds new relevance when asked in the context of Kerry Jameson's latest body of work, as presented at Marsden Woo Gallery over the summer, under the title Alchemy. The viewer was confronted by an assembly of 'beasts', who looked out through painted eyes of pebbles, shells and bottle-tops, applied to ceramic forms. The eyes were all important, giving her creations a semblance of life, but in their static and unblinking state, they issued cavernous, soulless stares; a rendering of Zizek's abyss or a Boschian netherworld made real.
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