MCTwo
2006, Seven Seven Gallery, London, U.K
Artists: Daniel Chalmers, Frederique Decombe, Richard Ducker
Curators: F. Decombe and R.Ducker
Sponsor: Lottery-Awards for All, London
Within the stardust, beyond the mathematics, behind a police photo-fit, inside a portrait, is an individual, climbing from the primordial mud, looking slightly drunk, on the way to work, waiting to be claimed, to be recognised.’ Mathew Foundling. ‘The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.’ Milan Kundera. MCtwo (Memoire Collective 2) is the second incarnation of a group of artists whose work is based around the idea that memory is central to notions of identity, but this process gets lost in translation. Through a series of systematic processes of production, the artists reveal within repetition an attempt at individuality. Between hand to paper, description to paper, and description via machine, there is a chain reaction of uncertainty that undermines reality’s apparent veracity.