Leckey has always been a direct artist, his dramatically unmysterious expunging of the work - and lectures as work often - frequently makes the objects stranger, their power more communicable, aren’t simply veiled surrealist abstraction; and instead great pains to make sure you get it - I mean read the PR- opposing Baghramian’s Art-turned-subject-monster DnD beholder, instead the pop psychologist flair for a sort of Trisha Donnelly cum Darren Bader cybernetic cultural-academic bent. It’s definitely a way out for a lot of cornered art, but few able the flat finesse of Leckey. The dry exposition of the original proposal 4 a show video stunning relief of so much overwrought hand wrung art, too badly not seen here.
