Sex, Lies and Videotapes; Alan Currall, Graduate and Employee of the Glasgow School of Art, Is Showing a New Exhibition of His Video Clips at Goma, in Which He has the Star Role. But What Does It All Mean? By Moira Jeffrey

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Some things you just have to come clean about straight away. Alan Currall's new show at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art is not visually spectacular. It can be a bit boring, too. There are moments in my visit, I must admit, that I find myself idly picking my nails, or wondering when was the last time that someone swept that tricky bit of floor in the corner.

Currall's acting skills are unpolished. His voice - there are three videos that feature himself and one sound piece - slow, tentative, a little flat at times, puts you in mind of a particularly home-made meditation tape, the kind likely to send you to sleep until the crappy electronic music and wave noises manage to wake you up again.

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Sex, Lies and Videotapes; Alan Currall, Graduate and Employee of the Glasgow School of Art, Is Showing a New Exhibition of His Video Clips at Goma, in Which He has the Star Role. But What Does It All Mean? By Moira Jeffrey

None of this means, though, that he isn't a good artist. And if you are the kind of person who persists, Some Things I Want to Show You turns out to be a good show: sinister, sad and close to the bo...

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