Camille Katsuragi
dal 23/9/2002 al 19/10/2002
Segnalato da
23/9/2002
Camille Katsuragi
Studio Voltaire, London
Camille Katsuragi presents her fourth solo exhibition in London, having recently exhibited with note artecontemporanea in Arezzo, Italy. In this exhibition the artist presents a series of projected works; 'serving tide', 'a constellation' and a video projection into dry ice alongside a new group of paintings in the chapel space at studio voltaire.
paintings and installations
Camille Katsuragi presents her fourth solo exhibition in London, having
recently exhibited with note artecontemporanea in Arezzo, Italy. In this
exhibition the artist presents a series of projected works; serving tide',
a constellation' and a video projection into dry ice alongside a new group
of paintings in the chapel space at studio voltaire. This is the first time
in Britain that the artist's installations and paintings will be shown
together.
The flux of disappearance and appearance is a phenomenon that is intrinsic
to any matter or event, yet still holds an autonomous beauty and magic of
its own. In my practice, this phenomenon serves as both the physical and
conceptual basis for my work.
Camille Katsuragi
serving tide' introduces a small hand-made cylinder-shaped projector that
is suspended from the ceiling. A bowl of liquid is placed directly
underneath, the liquid being a mixture of water, milk, corn flour and rice
powder. The projector casts an image of a figure photographed from the neck
down, focusing on the surface of the liquid. The figure only become visible
when the liquid is stirred as the surface is made opaque. When the liquid
is undisturbed, the image goes out of focus to a point where it completely
disappears, only to reappear again as the sediment of the mixture is
agitated.
In the picture: 'Serve tie'.
a constellation' forms a group of projectors where the ?screen? in this
instance is a viewer's hand or the floor. The viewer must move his or her
hand to varying heights underneath the projector to discover the focal point
of the projected image. The images describe nameless landscapes and
townscapes.
In i know that you know i'm here' the viewer makes smoke by dropping a
small fragment of dry-ice into a glass of water. When the smoke becomes
dense, footage of a moving figure is realised within it during the short
amount of time that the smoke lasts.
The artist's investigation into the fluxus of emergence is visible in the
extreme subtlety of her paintings as well as the projections, questioning
our visual impressions of being' and the world surrounding that being'.
The paintings depict single figures or sections of landscape in space using
negative images of their subject matter. The images are generated by finely
carving into a pale painted surface, which effects an almost intangible
quality to the corporeal imagery depicted. This sense of solid mass being
dissolved allows the viewer a freedom to see beyond the substance of what is
being painted.
Camille Katsuragi has exhibited in Italy, USA and Great Britain. A
catalogue of the exhibition at note artecontemporanea, Arezzo, February 2002
with essay by Roy Exley is available from Eva Tait.
For press enquiries, please contact:
Gill Rocca at Studio Voltaire
For sales enquiries or appointments outside of exhibition hours please
contact:
Eva Tait: tel + 44 (0)7968 969 419/e-mail: evatait@hotmail.com
Private View 24th September 6-9pm
Exhibition opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 1-6pm
Forthcoming exhibitions in November 2002
Moving Parts
The exhibition represents the work of eight artists; Robert Currie, Martin
Firrell, Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou, Debbie Lawson, Nicola Morris,
Nik Ramage and Dave Williams, who use movement in their work.
Studio Voltaire
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