Limbo
Limbo : marbles, acrylic, pvc and rubber, variable size, 1995 and 1997. "Feel Good Factor" - London Artforms, 7-15 Rosebery Avenue, London, UK, 1995. Three person show with Racheal Chapman, Miwa Kohima and myself , And "You are here re-siting installations", group exhibition, Mike Bode, Ceal Floyer, Bill Fontana, Leila Galloway, Mona Hatoum, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Rosie Leventon, Hannah Luczak, Cildo Meireles, Kristin Oppenheimer, Valeska Soares. Henry Moore and Gulbenkain Galleries, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 1997.
Final year students from the Visual Arts Administration course worked together to create this exhibition - non were commissioned- all of the installations had been shown before.
"...Silence also resounds in Leila Galloway’s work. Attaching and overlapping sheets of Perspex with rubber ‘grommets’ , Galloway elevates the base functionality of these objects to create sensors textures and rhythms that are cerebral rather than physical. Although desire originates in the body, here it is manifested as an idea and a process, rather than an urge...".
Press release Sadie Murdoch, 1995.
'...The inability to perceive the work as simple stable objects and the creation of a sense of frozen flux are qualities pervading all of Galloway's work. She makes a visual promise of movement which can never be fulfilled, bringing her objects to the very brink of the motion and narrative which would destroy them."
P.64, Tamsin Dillon "You are here re-siting installations”, UK, 1997 - ISBN 1-84715-61-6
"...Limbo, 1995, exists between the traditional object-based conception of sculpture and installation. The gallery floor is treated as a field upon which hundreds of small glass marbles have come to rest. The installation relies on the force of gravity to determine the way the marbles are either caught or fall through the fabricated perspex structure. As viewers negotiate a precarious passage through the marbles, they have the power to determine the patterning of theses playful objects by starting chain reactions of kinetic movement..."
P.14, Katharine Stout. “You are here re-siting installations”, UK, 1997 - ISBN 1-84715-61-6
“…Galloway has been able to rephrase these concerns about childish play. In ‘Limbo’ (1997), she articulated a series of ideas about the importance of infantile play as a means of starting to recognise what the world is..”
P.16, Art/play, Snakes and Latitude, Rob Stone, Tate Magazine, No 18, ISSN 1351 3737.
