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Melissa Macleod The Trappings of Ghosts Ashburton Art Gallery, 7 March–19 April
Stillness, silence and a sense of weightlessness permeate this work by Melissa Macleod. The Trappings of Ghosts, her most recent sculptural installation, bears a perfect title for a murder mystery. Ethereal and haunting, the work itself is hard to lock down. And who are the ghosts, what are their origins and what does the word trapping suggest?
Staged in a creates an invisible wall, a demarcation, cleverly separating the artwork from the corridor area. The corridor itself has been transformed into a viewing platform from which to contemplate and, ultimately, negotiate the work. All white and pristine, the installation suggests some sort of medical experiment, clinical and removed, transported into the gallery from a hospital storage facility for observation and analysis.
