11th July - 13th July, 2025
Rhian Llloyd
Our second show in the space, ‘Travels and Travels’, by R.A.T. studio member Rhian Lloyd.
‘[(Thomas) Thissen wrote over two thousand stories on vellum leaves as part of a volume named ‘Travels and Travels’. After his death, (I.W) Greville maintains, the collection was discovered by a monk on a pilgrimage who sought sanctuary on the island during a storm. The monk returned the book to his monastery and it was bound in the order that it was found] [The work’s contents have been the subject of some debate, as although there are over two thousand stories in the collection none ever appeared to be completed.]
[I I separate the pages from the binding. I shuffle them like an unwieldy pack of cards and lay them out on the floor of my flat. I begin in the corner of the kitchen under the window and continue through the hallway, across to the bathroom and into my bedroom…While I am brushing my teeth I look at the pages laid out beneath my feet. I shall reimagine the effect for you now:’]
^ Extracts from the exhibtion text, ‘The Map in Thomas Thissen’s Travels and Travels’ by Rhian Lloyd
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