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19/11/2002

Lost Hours

Pump House Gallery, London

Edith Marie Pasquier / Judy Price / Zineb Sedira / Kay Walsh

Four artists gamble with narrative journeys and personal histories to disrupt traditional notions of story telling. Contributing to contemporary practice in video, installation and sculpture the works reside in the lyrical preoccupations of memory and loss. Revealing family ties, the transparency of language and projected desires, the landscapes, physical and emotional that we occupy are transformed.

Zineb Sedira's video triptych, Mother and I, Daughter and I, Grandmother and Granddaughter, approaches material from her life to question a sense of place and 'mother tongue'. She explores translation within cultural identity as three generations of women in her own family communicate to each other. The seemingly shared languages that link the generations are Arabic, French and English creating a poetic and reverential triptych. Zineb has exhibited extensively in major shows internationally and in the UK, including the 49th Venice Biennale. The Corner House, Manchester, will be launching her significant touring solo show in 2003/4.

All the books I ever read (with you) by Edith Marie Pasquier draws upon her short digital film, Lonely Twin to construct an installation of words, in a work that deliberates upon the relationship between a twin brother and sister. Pivotal to the narrative is the sudden departure of the twin brother. Refusing the viewer the seductive visibility of the filmic image, her characters move between time in a "room of words". Luminous words glow from the walls and ceiling, are sounded from a record player, and reside within books to be taken and kept by the visitor - a sculptural space outside film. Lonely Twin is to be premiered at the Curzon Soho in December and Edith is currently working with Serpentine Gallery and Soho Theatre to create an installation of narrative, journey and sound.

Similarly working from original film stills, New Zealand Artist, Kay Walsh takes us through a seemingly familiar landscape, a journey through the city at night. Recital uses the illusory qualities of light and darkness and the filmic narrative, to convey qualities of anonymity. Panoramic vistas blend with close ups of nocturnal terrain forming a textural landscape hidden by day. The moment of seeing is perpetually replaced with another to illuminate and intensify a well-known territory that can nonetheless overwhelm. Kay has shown internationally including The Show, in Seoul Korea, Arcadia in the City with English Heritage and at the Rio Cinema. In 2003, she will show a new body of work at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery in London, where she will also be co-curator.

The Watch House lies on Blakeney Point shingle ridge in Norfolk and dates back to 1865. In excerpts from Judy Price's new body of work From the Watch House, multiple passing moments evoke visual and sonic narratives. The images of the landscape are painterly in quality, applying the narrative possibilities of digital video to create a fluid and transparent border that emerges from the artist's lengthy research, observations and experiences. Judy was awarded two grants for her residency at the Watch House, which will culminate in a solo show in 2003. Judy Price is also working towards a new exhibition and publication called 'Isthmus' at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery, which she is also co-curating.

For more information or images: call Susie/David on 020 7350 0523

Gallery open: Wednesday - Sunday 11am-5pm (Saturdays 11am -4pm) Admission FREE

Lost Hours is generously supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

pump house gallery battersea park london SW11 4NJ

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