MARCIUS GALAN

Marcius Galan explores the metaphorical capacities of space and our relation to it through his wide-ranging practice which includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. With a recognisably minimal aesthetic, Galan employs abstract geometry to delineate the political and social implications of his chosen environments, deconstructing the codes of objects established through everyday use. Whilst these configurations are always executed with graphic simplicity, Galan’s works are in fact complex material experiments that interrogate the functions, limits and frontiers of space and by extension, the socio-political systems which reside therein. This exhibition included a selection of works installed across three distinct spaces at White Cube Bermondsey, including the North Galleries and 9x9x9.

Three Sections (2012), which occupied the entire space of North Gallery II, uses paint, floor wax and light filters to create three green-coloured planes in space that give the impression of three sharply-angled walls. Despite the formal proximity to the work of American ‘Light and Space’ artists like James Turrell and Robert Irwin, the construction is done through a minimal modification of the space itself, using no hi-tech artifice. The work proposes a shift in our perception to suggest the presence of an element that does not exist, causing a confusion that makes the viewer re-examine their own presence in relation to the space.