Cortex Athletico: Charles Mason and Laura White at CAPC Bordeaux

The exhibition 'Cortex Athletico' at CAPC Bordeaux, running from June 23 to August 23, 2005, brings together British artists Laura White and Charles Mason. Curated by Zoë Gray, the show explores urban materiality through works that act as 'passwords' to enter and exit the city's hidden layers. White's installations project natural images onto plastic bags or pair bird imagery with jackhammer sounds, forcing disparate elements into dialogue. Mason reuses pallets and photographs of containers, applying camouflage patterns or spatial projections to transform mundane objects into keys for deciphering urban space. The artists extract overlooked details from everyday life, creating fissures in habitual perception.