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From the museum's pamphlet:
"George Henry Longly (b. 1978 in the United Kingdom, lives in London) presents an unsettling installation around an exceptional collection of 18th and 19th century armour and accessories that belonged to daimyo, powerful lords in feudal Japan. Paying close attention to systems of presentation and the construction of experience, George Henry Longly has conceived a shifting environment that skirts and sidesteps our every attempt to apprehend it. The perception of space and of the Japanese objects is constantly modified by an aleatory mechanism that generates disturbances and tensions.
Video, sculpture and sound contribute to the distortion of the exhibition space, which serves as the site of an original dialogue between historical objects, biology, and phenomenology. Images created by submarine research robots enter into resonance with daimyo suits of armour, masterpieces of cutting-edge technology in their own right. George Henry Longly draws on pop culture, the collective unconscious and the motif of sensory deprivation to conjure up an experience that oscillates between armour and skin, between the carnal envelope and artificial extensions of the human body."
IMG_1643
From the museum's pamphlet:
"George Henry Longly (b. 1978 in the United Kingdom, lives in London) presents an unsettling installation around an exceptional collection of 18th and 19th century armour and accessories that belonged to daimyo, powerful lords in feudal Japan. Paying close attention to systems of presentation and the construction of experience, George Henry Longly has conceived a shifting environment that skirts and sidesteps our every attempt to apprehend it. The perception of space and of the Japanese objects is constantly modified by an aleatory mechanism that generates disturbances and tensions.
Video, sculpture and sound contribute to the distortion of the exhibition space, which serves as the site of an original dialogue between historical objects, biology, and phenomenology. Images created by submarine research robots enter into resonance with daimyo suits of armour, masterpieces of cutting-edge technology in their own right. George Henry Longly draws on pop culture, the collective unconscious and the motif of sensory deprivation to conjure up an experience that oscillates between armour and skin, between the carnal envelope and artificial extensions of the human body."