MROOUCTKH. Linda Quinlan. 2011.

Linda Quinlan's silent video, MROOUCTKH, originally made to be viewed as a loop (05:13 min), has been edited by the artist to be shown here.

Quinlan's practice incorporates moving image, audio and installation. Recent exhibitions (2011) include: Comma 33, (solo) Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK; Hypercolon, curated by Nathaniel Mellors + Chris Bloor, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Screening Room, curated by Regina Barunke, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany. Quinlan participated in the Visual Artists Ireland residency at Picture This, Bristol, in 2010.

'In a moment in Quinlan's MROOUCTKH, the disembodied white mouth that has been mutely and fastidiously opening and closing envelops, like some cosmic trout, the crystalline rock that has been orbiting by. The mouth has been stretching and bending, as if warming up for an event, its soft body looking almost worm-like, a limbless creature with an elasticated body, ruled by an underlying force of sinuses muscle. It mouths and gums at the rock as if trying to feel its shape, to gain some blind, tactile knowledge of it. After a few moments, it releases it again, and the stone continues to spin. But the two bodies have exchanged a sort silent, implicit acknowledgement of each other. The rock, emerging from the mouth, suggests itself as a form of utterance, some sort of speech akin to a comic book speech bubble that physically embodies language, the words here though are embedded in a web of quartz, a sentence in abstract geology'. - Text by Chris Fite-Wassilak.

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