Cultures

‘Cultures’ was produced for the exhibition ‘[s] Rhythms in ArtLacuna’ 2019, ArtLacuna, UK, an artist run studio and gallery of which Tindle was a member.

The piece is a material exploration on the examination of bodily fluids, and artificial bodily fluids as a form of self checking. Tindle was influenced by medical sample cabinets, Victorian apothecaries as they appear in fiction and the history of the space, which had previously functioned as a cornoner’s office.

Influenced by Henri Lefebvre’s writing on the analysis of rhythm (Rhythmanalysis) and it’s effects on those it touches; socially, physically and spiritually, the works shown in this exhibition all concerned with lived monotony or the disruption of monotony. Lefebvre posits that a body is made up of a number of cyclical and linear (finite) rhythms. In order to observe other, societal rhythms, a Rhythmanalyst must use their own rhythms as a reference or unit of measurement.