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Cardiff & Miller Exhibition Review |
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Written by Michael Whitham
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 The Canadian artistic partnership of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller has been a fixture of the international installation art scene since the early 1990s, and this exciting collection of their work at the Fruitmarket’s summer exhibition features recreations of some of their most intriguing works.
Using music, sound, video and found objects in their work, Cardiff and Miller’s installations are at once beguiling and eerie, playful and sinister. The machinery they create in works like Opera for a Small Room and The Killing Machine are like inanimate performers, set up in quiet, darkened rooms they play out their uncanny and abstract narratives, seducing the viewer into their weird and wonderful worlds.
The Dark Pool is one of the exhibition’s most peculiar but captivating works – a whole room filled with a random array of objects and mechanisms which react to the viewers movements as they walk around the room, the space recalls a grandparent’s attic or a secret room in an abandoned house.
Simultaneously familiar and supernatural, the fictions created by each work are truly intoxicating, and especially considering the exhibition is free, it’s well worth a visit.
- Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The House of Books has no Windows
- Fruitmarket Gallery
- Until 28th September
- 11:00 - 18:00
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