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 sam dargan and samuel st leger
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Worlds apart at London’s Rokeby gallery. A down-and-out sprawls unconscious on the grey pavement. A bloodstained bed in a gloomy bedsit lies among the grot. Elsewhere, a man lingers in an overgrown graveyard clutching a carrier bag… Sam Dargan’s dark and sometimes grisly vision of the world is one where heads belong on spikes and McDonald’s burns into the night. Where anonymous disillusioned men are doomed to lives of inconsequential suburban horror. Sketched and painted in muted tones and fashionably naïve style, Dargan’s extreme scenes drip with a melancholic pessimism for today’s urban male.Visually a world away are Samuel St Leger’s pared down, graphically monochromatic landscapes. But among his forbidding trees lie remnants of human intervention. Sheets of paper blow across the grass in the night, planks of wood lie forgotten deep in the forest. St Leger’s accessible, comic style almost belies the sense of unsettling abandonment in his scenes. The complementary visions of the world presented by the two relative newcomers work well together. It’s easy to imagine that outside Dargan’s disturbing suburbs lies St Leger’s neglected countryside. A scary thought indeed. Sam Dargan & Samuel St Leger are at the Rokeby gallery until 05 July 05.
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