major retrospective exhibition of sculpture and installation art by David Johnson at the London Roundhouse using objects and slide projections.

The light that Johnson deals with in many of his works is a truly transcendent light whose luminescence prizes us away from those habitual, invisible bonds which bind us to the mortal coil. The paradoxes which permeate his work prompt a shift of consciousness, trigger a free fall from our ingrained patterns of thought. These impossibilities presented as realities move us into that ethereal territory populated by the likes of Georgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, M.C.Escher, and even James Turrell. This world of impossibility accessed by the play of illusion is one that is easily exposed for what it is and yet we are willing collaborators, hooked on the frisson it brings. Traditionally trompe l'oeil and anamorphic projection fulfilled these needs, yet often they appealed to little more than the desire for novelty. Johnson's works however entreat us to move beyond the merely perceptual into the existential, they question where those boundaries lie between the real and the imaginary, the phenomenal and the fantastic, the physical and the metaphysical.