Short Cuts Exhibition

Spitfire Beach, the HD film, the model and two A0 photographs. In Spitfire Beach (2010) Lisa Stansbie takes the dogmatic instructions supplied with Airfix kits and ends with a sculpture and film that defy the ordered kit-building narrative that exists in the plans of each aeroplane. Hurricanes and Typhoons, Mosquitoes and Spitfires are transformed into places and events that are woven into a narrative that takes place on an impossible shoreline, where a queue of people abandon the mementos of their life into the sea. (Michael Cousin, Curator g39, Cardiff)