Elisabeth Mahoney 

Kate Gray

Kate Gray,Collective GalleryRating ***
  
  


Is a maze still a maze if it is fragmented, if it leads a few yards and then stops? Does a light-box retain its essential character if you can see how it works - the strip lights in a cavity, mounted on to aluminium foil, and hung in a plasterboard box behind an image? Can a scene be both deeply familiar and disturbingly unfamiliar at the same time?

These are some of the questions Kate Gray poses in her first solo exhibition, a quirky, enigmatic show that inspires the same feelings as an odd, half- remembered dream.

At its heart is the interaction between the human, everyday world and the grand narrative of science. This takes various forms: scraps of a maze are installed in the gallery, and there are photographs in which individuals behave strangely, theatrically, in the shadow of power stations and under power cables.

In one chilling scene, a woman appears to do tai chi by the sea, but looks as though she might be under some kind of duress. Elsewhere an arm pokes out from a boat on a rubbish-strewn lake.

These gestures go unexplained, but the scenes have the stagy look of a horror film just before it gets really nasty.

Until September 9. Details: 0131-220 1260.

Collective Gallery

 

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