ARTHOUSE1 - This is the Second Evening I See 13 Rabbits on the Grass 2016

For Richard Ducker the authentic self is constantly in a state of flux existing somewhere between fabrication and erasure, reality and myth. As an extension of autobiography in a symbiotic dependency with the work, it is in constant competition with itself. Displaced, memory falls out of sync in a collapse of the present into the past. Language becomes an alien form while sculpture performs as a prop on the set of a sci-fi metaphor. Connecting these discrete elements is a wall text. However, the words are untrustworthy, devious, and are out to mislead. Unspecified surveillance permeates the spliced extracts from the writings of the Heavens Gate cult, and ‘clippings’ from the artist’s own spam box and Facebook feed. Barely readable through lack of punctuation, it offers a glimpse into the overload of a repressed economy, the collapse of privacy, and its corollary, the conspiracy theory’s paranoiac escapism. Contact is attempted.

Jane Boyer, 2016