In case we never meet

In Case We Never Meet

Justin Balmain
MOP Projects

Considering a recent exhibition history employing shards of Perspex, toxic stocks of spray paint, lights; black and neon, scaffolding, broken mirror balls, minimalist monoliths and time-lapse flower uploads, anticipating Justin Balmain’s next move is not easy. Unfailingly inventive, the formally impressive Balmain uses his protean art-box to... [read more]

In Case We Never Meet

Justin Balmain
MOP Projects

Considering a recent exhibition history employing shards of Perspex, toxic stocks of spray paint, lights; black and neon, scaffolding, broken mirror balls, minimalist monoliths and time-lapse flower uploads, anticipating Justin Balmain’s next move is not easy. Unfailingly inventive, the formally impressive Balmain uses his protean art-box to veritably delve beneath (very) visual cultural surfaces.

‘In Case We Never Meet’ portrays a perfect love story never consummated, two lovers race around the market place with no desire to buy, searching a scene for something that refuses to be found. The pair fail to meet, yet they are each other’s equal, parts one and two, or kin maybe - resemblances A and B. Duration finds the looping lovers are instead cyclical runners, chasing themselves. Their presence is a negation of togetherness, it is only the viewer who possesses narrative tools for a union. This atemporal work posits alienation is as much a part of semiocapitalism as it was with the moderns. Dual screen presentation is a great paring back for Balmain, running and projection loops play each other out, an eternal return accompanied by echoing security alarms.

Marian Tubbs



I would like to thank Will Ackerman, Bianca Jane, and Marian Tubbs for their contributions, and especially to Max Bellamy, who made this project possible.

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