25 St. James's Street                                                          London SW1

1 April - 14 May 2004 

Dusu Choi  Flash 

                                                                           Within the foyer of the Economist Tower, Dusu Choi, a Korean-based artist will exhibit Flash, an installation of  rotating red and white spiralling barbers signs. In the UK the candy lights in barber windows are clearly understood as the sign for a particular service – hair-cutting.  In Asia, however, where one of these lights is displayed a person (particularly a man) can get his hair cut, but when there are two he can get the services of a prostitute….and a haircut.

Dusu will present a frame with 12 of these on one side, 13 on the other, 13 being an unlucky number here, but lucky in Asia.  The lights themselves have been transformed by Dusu with a myriad of multi-coloured hearts replacing the red and white stripes, making the patterns more complicated, mesmerising and alluring. 

Mark Pearson Malm/Swamp Thing 

For the spring exhibition in the outdoor space of The Economist Plaza at 25 St James’s Street, Mark Pearson will present Malm/Swamp Thing, a large-scale figurative sculpture assembled from Ikea office furniture.

Mark Pearson will apply his form of DIY vandalism to public sculpture, taking three items of Ikea furniture from the ‘Malma’ range and dramatically reconfiguring its elements to make a free-standing form.

Pearson says he ‘make(s) sculptures that are caught in the act of transformation or mutation: frozen during an attempt to assert crass statements of cultural identity or a hollow sense of mythic grandeur’.

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