Forvever Loop - Eddie Peake Barbican Curve
“I want to convey a narrative in which unrequited desire, jealousy, love and other real emotions implicit in the experience of being in a relationship with another person, as well as the various manifestations of one’s sense of self, are all emphatically alluded to,” Peake said of his Barbican Curve installation. I really enjoyed this exhibition - it became a personal journey. My initial reaction to Forever Loop was this is an elegiac ritual for the crashing of the urban hipster Wavey Garms art wave. Fishing around on the Internet and going to other shows I see I’m horrendously out of touch. This early 21 st century try-hard edgy style is not on the decline. I also thought oh another show that could be a joke about hip modern multi-disciplinary art but dismissed this due to my open minded position. Peake himself recognises that the nude has become a semiotic unit. What is the reason for a touch stone of radical art having been scooped up as a signifier and severed from ...