Three stars
Young hearts run free in Rabindranath X Bhose’s new installation, the latest contribution to Collective’s Satellites programme of work by emerging practitioners. Drawing from the ‘Hanged Man’ tarot card and the spiritual preserves of bogland, Bhose has created an environment of vinyl bogs fringed with dams of peat to protect them. Coloured scarves and other totems of illicit after hours liaisons are tied onto branches, as if marking their territory.
On the windows are etched four images of the ‘Hanged Man’ himself, dangling in the limbo land between heaven and earth as the noose tightens before the final death rattle dance begins. With a recording of poetry by Bhose and writers and artists Sammy Paloma and Oren Shoesmith soundtracking the scene like some Derek Jarman fantasia, Bhose’s construction is a temple of sorts that falls somewhere between the sacred and the profane, finding liberation as it goes. (Neil Cooper)
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh until 24 September.
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