Jennifer Townley on display at the MAD Gallery in Geneva

The “Perpetual Transience” exhibition by Dutch artist Jennifer Townley will be on display until 11 June at the MB&F M.A.D. Gallery in Geneva. A love for geometry, immense talent in the engineering sector and an interest in the work of graphic artist M.C. Escher have led Townley to see order in a world reigned by chaos. She realises mechanical watches that distort the observer’s perspective with their hypnotic and repetitive movements. From this idea she creates “Cubes”. This piece of art is made up of structures in the shape of rhombuses that are slowly swung back and forth in such a way that the light, being reflected in different directions, makes them appear as diamonds. In “De Rode Draad”, the red thread is put into movement by mechanical gears that cause it to trace ever-changing designs, while in “Squares”, gear wheels move, creating shapes that materialize and dissolve on a white surface on top of a thinly carved wooden grid.