Esther Stocker exhibition, London

The title of Esther Stocker's latest show, What I Don't Know About Space, encapsulates nicely the negative abstraction of her work. Her grid-like paintings and built installations are more often explorations of what isn't - of what remains after the careful geometric demarcation of a blank canvas or an empty room.

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Stocker's large-scale architectural forms feel like real-life, 3-D optical illusions, or the broken edges of a virtual maze. The emptiness between the half-lines is almost tangible. Her canvases similarly challenge popular conceptions of spatial geometry. Via subtle modulations she affects a clever dissolution of shape, form, and structural precision.

With ostensible simplicity and minimalist construction - the colour palette is typically limited to black, white and grey and the built matter can seem almost incidental - Stocker's work invites a gentle re-evaluation of the ways in which we conceptualise our most familiar surroundings.

27 June 2008 | Art