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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.No progress at London’s Fieldgate Gallery. The second show in this unfurbished warehouse space lends itself well to its surrounds, with the artists asked to undercut the constant demand for progress in contemporary art. A healthy contempt for the disposability of the media is apparent, from Lee Holden’s terrifying installation - an onslaught of the sounds and paraphernalia of yesterday’s news and posthumously wrong medical advice - to Mat Humphrey’s elegant portraits, gorgeously stripping down images of entertainment idols who ended it by their own hand into crude cardboard. In much of the other work there’s the very human conflict of a desire to understand, possess and experience life. Isabel Young’s series of miniature animal portraits housed in lockets places confused and unlikely animals in battle beside ruthless leaders; Maxwell Attenborough’s jet planes are trapped in close-up on celluloid; and Richard Ducker’s disposably everyday objects are cased in cement. In the end, the show’s brief is turned around. The objects of our infatuation begin to become what they’re not, by our need to own, record and preserve, which is in itself an innately progressive phenomenon. Half Life is at the Fieldgate Gallery, London, until 16 July 06.
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