GLENN BROWN

The Freud Museum, London, presents The Sight of Something, a joint exhibition by Glenn Brown and Mathew Weir, exploring the significance of psychoanalysis in the artists’ practices. Sigmund Freud observed in his 1922 essay ‘Medusa’s Head’ that childhood terrors can be triggered by ‘the sight of something.’ British artists Brown and Weir explore the rich ambiguity of this phrase through a selection of drawings, paintings and sculptures in dialogue with objects and artefacts throughout the Freud Museum.

A central theme of this project is mark-making, most evident in drawing and the inscription of lines, which is connected to psychoanalysis through the act of uncovering traces of the past. Here, the act of drawing becomes a means of revealing and grappling with hidden or altered experiences. Brown and Weir’s images are never fixed or absolute; like memory they are constructed, layered and distorted – shaped as much by absence and forgetting as by what is seen and remembered.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay by Darian Leader.

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