Shona Illingworth
dal 2/9/2002 al 29/9/2002
Segnalato da
2/9/2002
Shona Illingworth
CGP London - Cafe Gallery, London
Over the last ten years, Shona Illingworth has worked with photography, film, video and sound, to create installations in which image and voice combine to test the formation of identity, imagination and perception. Her work examines how an ‘interior’ sense of self is sustained overtime, often in the context of powerful psychological or physical confinement.
Exhibition: 4th to 29th September 2002
Gallery opening times: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 5 pm
Preview: Tuesday 3rd September 2002 from 6 to 8.30 pm
Over the last ten years, Shona Illingworth has worked with photography,
film, video and sound, to create installations in which image and voice
combine to test the formation of identity, imagination and perception.
Her work examines how an ‘interior’ sense of self is sustained over
time, often in the context of powerful psychological or physical confinement.
‘… the works achieve their considerable strength and grace from the
creative tension established between the framing context and the framed subject’
Greg Hilty 2001
In her video installation Walking on Letters 1999, layering of voice is
used to examine the effects of incarceration on an individual sense of
self. Here she investigates the relationship between seeing and hearing
and shifts in focus between the internal spaces of thought, emotion and
memory and the external physical world.
For her first solo exhibition in London, Shona Illingworth will show
Walking on Letters alongside a new video installation which examines
structures of power, conformity and discipline through the military
practise of Drill. Filmed within the confines of a parade ground at
night, the work amplifies the suppressed violence and control that
establishes the corporate body of the group and subverts individual
identity, so diminishing the presence and tolerance of difference. Shown
on a continuous loop with no beginning or end the work sustains a state
of continual flux between physical order and psychological disruption.
Over the last four years Shona Illingworth has enjoyed growing
International attention for her video installations. She has recently
undertaken several important commissions including: passing, 2001 for
the Hayward Gallery, London, Calling – a’ gairm, 2001 for FABRICA in
association with Photoworks, in Brighton, and SOUNDING, 2001 for
Channel 4 Television and the Arts Council of England. She was nominated
for the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2000 and in 1999, Walking on
Letters won joint first prize at the Onufri 99, International Art
Exhibition, Tirana, Albania.
For more press information or images please contact:
Malcolm Jones on 020 7237 1230
Access: Cafe Gallery Projects gallery is fully accessible to people with
disabilities.
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The gallery by the lake, Southwark Park
London SE16 2UA, UK.