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Miraculous Accumulator, 2013, Giclée prints (two parts), wooden sculpture (two parts), Photographs printed in edition of 10, 74 x 100 cm each (print size), Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery
Exhibition through March 26, 2016 at Ingleby Gallery, Los Angeles Fair & Paris Fair Exhibitor
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL Edinburgh
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Lyons’s practice explores the fragility of friendship and adventure through performances documented by photography and film. He creates ingenious and mischievous devices which are presented – having fulfilled their one purpose – as relics of the event, together with the photographic evidence. The photographs, however, are not simply documentation of a sequence of anarchic events. They fix the moment between ’cause’ and ‘effect’ and are imbued with wit, melancholy and the physical humour of early silent cinema. In this process Lyons attempts to reconcile the enthusiasm of reckless youth with the pressures of adulthood; these are snap-shots of ‘Lost Boys’ putting outlandish ideas into practice and (just) getting away with it.
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