Simon Martin: UR Feeling, Camden Arts Centre - exhibition review

It’s a slow-burner, so just stay with it, says Ben Luke
Sense of trauma: a still from Simon Martin’s film UR Feeling
Ben Luke23 April 2015

What is the UR Feeling that gives Simon Martin’s video installation its title? Martin took it from a quote by the architect Peter Eisenman, who described it as “something between understanding and not”.

The video work certainly fits that idea. Two performers, a man and a woman, are slowly interweaving. Their improvised movements are based on Martin’s instructions, which are informed by his research into cities and architecture — they’re ambiguous, somewhere between sexuality and violence.

A sense of trauma pervades the performance — a mood of anxiety that only grows the longer you stay with the film. It’s a slow-burner, haunting and strangely affecting.

Until June 21 (020 7472 5500, camdenartscentre.org)

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