Deep Shadows?
14 June – 30 July 2001
A new site-specific installation, made especially for this exhibition was shown alongside new wall and floor works and a selection of wall based holograms from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Sight Lines spanned one wall of the gallery space and was made up of nine rusted metal plates, each containing a small circular hologram.
The plates hung on fine metal cables from the gallery ceiling and were each illuminated by one of the spotlights normally used to display reflection holograms on the wall, a location where visitors might expect to view framed work or, in this case, holograms.
On the wall, at eye height, thin digital photographs of the centre of each metal plate were displayed.
The hanging structure restricted close access to the wall images.
The reference to ‘drawing’ is a common and recurring element in Pepper’s work.
The metal sheets are the dimensions of half a sheet of A4 paper – an accessible size found all over Europe – something people write on, draw on, photocopy, or laser print on. Here, the size has been divided along the longest length to produce a shape onto which long lines could be drawn.
Each circular hologram was selected to resonate with the pattern of marks on the rusted metal sheet. They are subdued – green/brown, red – and an integral part of each metal rectangle, not simply surrounded by a frame to make them convenient to display.
Other works on show
Lamp 1, 2001
Centre Column, 1989
Square Eclips, 1989
Part of the Jonathan Ross Collection
Colour Study, 1993
A collaboration with Eric Krantz
Part of the Jonathan Ross Collection
Twenty Nine Three, 1993
A collaboration with Eric Krantz
Curved, 2001
Exhibition Reference
Date: 14 June – 30 July 2001
Title: Deep Shadows?
Location: Gallery 286, London, UK
