Go with the flow

Lose yourself in an exhibition featuring glorious great water falls strangely falling upwards and reams of free-falling text, transporting you to a place where you'll either panic, or be forced to go with the flow.

Paul Schütze's art show vertical memory explores the collapsing of structures and narratives in sound and architecture.

A glorious show centrepiece, called Dreaming Camera, features video footage of the Skogafoss waterfall in Reykjavik, shot onto huge opposing screens, slowed down and played backwards.

Another, entitled Walled City, is a floor to ceiling piece featuring the entire text from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel, ‘Topology of a Phantom City’. The work shows the text as a huge grid of mirrored characters reading vertically without word spacings or punctuation, which could either invite viewers to feel panic as they think they’re losing sight of the background, or just go with the curious flow.

See this investigation of architectural space, soundscapes and the notions of memory and consciousness, at the Alan Cristea Gallery, 31 Cork Street, London.