Tuesday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm
The Crypt St. Pancras Church
Euston NW1 2BA (Entrance on Duke's Road)
What’s in a name? Noyah-Luce, part Bangladeshi, part Italian, informed by London, The Enlightenment, Science, Nature, Human and Machine. This exhibition brings together three of London’s finest and most luminous emerging artistic talents, whose names propitiously all begin with the letter R: Roberto Bortolotti, Rob Dewan-Syed and Rebecca Evanson.
Noyah-Luce (New-Light) as a whole seeks to challenge the changes ‘The Enlightenment’ has had on our perception of Science and Nature. The participating artists of Noyah-Luce view this not in isolation but as a unified entity, questioning the desire, or even the necessity, to quantify and classify natural occurrences through their work.
Juxtaposing the natural environment with the artificial world, Roberto Bortolotti is a creator of both installations of ‘found objects’ and film, exploring the Human versus the Machine. For Noyah-Luce he returns to the landscape of his childhood, rural Friuli in Northeast Italy, using technology to reveal its mystical qualities.
In comparison, Rob Dewan-Syed takes the interpretation and re-interpretation of data as an analytical base for his sculpture, printing and installation work. With a graphic design background, his art practice encompasses the commonplace and the mighty, yet always expressing the meaning of an emotional state for the human ‘condition’.
The most established participant, Rebecca Evanson, brings to Noyah-Luce exhibits informed by her personal response to her work as a Community Paediatrician.
Focusing on challenging the medical profession’s intrusion, ‘The Clinical Gaze’, into quantifying normal child development, she asks the question: ‘Are You Normal For Your Age?’, highlighting how far many of us are removed from being classified within the ‘Normal Range’.