Gray Area Grand Theater: Ruaridh Law ‘Triadic Paths’ solo exhibition

For version 3.0 of the Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area is pleased to host a solo exhibition of work by Scottish-born artist Ruaridh Law, curated by Thorsten Sideboard.

Triadic Paths is a collection of three works Law’s oeuvre, each tripartite in some way. Having previously exhibited outdoors, in clubs, in group gallery shows and more unusual locations, this marks the first time that a collection of his works have been brought together inside. Each has a deep connection to memory, the psyche and the intangibility of thought.

I Like To Remember Things My Own Way was originally conceived as a live performance piece, looping clips from David Lynch’s Lost Highway over and over again until they degrade and corrupt. This then evolved into a narrative film (screened here) for Repeater Books in 2022, with the voice of Luke Hansbury charting a spiral of lost memory and decaying cognition – an abstract horror, with neurological failure as the villain, split into three sections.

Bare Windows, Many Shades has previously been exhibited in clubs as well as gallery spaces. Three tripod mounted screens display heavily processed footage of clubs that had a profound impact on the artist. Locking the viewer in via headphones and small screen, the nostalgia and often inaccurate memories become shared, with hazy, reverb-drenched reimaginings of the music filling the ears.

And lastly 44: A Tarot For Sietse Van Erve presents a custom made tarot deck and control interface to explore the image, sound and narrative in the cards. Having been performed outside in the Forest Of Galloway as a participatory piece, and used in several performances as a live instrument, this iteration brings it into the gallery space as a standalone installation, allowing the participants to deal their own cards and create audio and visual stimulus over the three cards.