“Glory Box”
Matthew Perkins
29 Oct → 20 Nov 2010
Gallery 2

Glory Box featured two boxes containing plasma screens installed on the floor. The screens depict an image of an upper body (that of the artist) whose breathing is constrained within a lidless box.

Over time the torso is gradually wrapped with slices of soft, skin-coloured clay. White or black paint is then applied to the clay wrapped surface of the body. The treatment of the body in this way evokes a sense of the body as a surface – a visual or cultural canvas. Throughout the duration of the video piece, coloured liquid is gradually poured into the box and the body disappears, sinking beneath the surface of the fluid.