Liane Lang
dal 5/10/2011 al 21/10/2011
Segnalato da
5/10/2011
Liane Lang
WW Patio Projects, London
House Guests. This new work takes its cue from the preserved or recreated living or working spaces of famous figures, designed to allow the viewer to enter temporarily into the past - a museum to the individual life. The projected film is an animation made in Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, the site of many traumatic events for his family but also where he wrote many of his best-loved books.
Curated by Debra Wilson & Chiara Williams
WW Gallery is pleased to present House Guests, a new installation by Liane Lang, 6th – 22nd
October 2011.
This new work takes its cue from the preserved or recreated living or working spaces of famous
figures, designed to allow the viewer to enter temporarily into the past - a museum to the
individual life. The projected film is an animation made in Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, the
site of many traumatic events for his family but also where he wrote many of his best-loved
books. The haunting atmosphere of the film gently spills over into the exhibition space, where
strange objects, piles of books, pieces of furniture and photographs extend the narrative.
The film animation was made at Naulakha, the house of Rudyard Kipling in Vermont, an isolated
building in the Connecticut River Valley. Kipling built this house to his own designs and lived here
with his wife and daughters. The space we see is haunted, occupied by inhabitants that appear
and vanish, furniture that moves of its own accord and disembodied voices that play in the
overgrown swimming pool. In the exhibition space, found objects are arranged like haunted
souls along the walls, hinting at the dark side of Kipling’s times and thoughts, the confusion and
conflict of colonialism, travel and friendship as well as racism and arrogance, a boy’s adventure
tale and the horrors of war.
Liane Lang grew up in Germany and the US. She studied at NCAD in Dublin and completed a
BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College followed by a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal
Academy, where she graduated in 2006. Her work is concerned with notions of animacy, which
she investigates through sculpture, photography and video works. Many of Lang's works
examine museum objects and the biographies they attempt to narrate, modes of display and
the verisimilitude of art objects, particularly figurative sculptures and political monuments. More
info: www.lianelang.com
Image: Liane Lang, 'House Guests' film still
For more information please visit www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com, for press-ready images & press
release: www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/press.htm or contact Chiara Williams & Debra Wilson at
wwgallery@gmail.com.
Private View: Fri 7th October 6-9pm
First Thursday 6th October 6-9pm
WW Gallery
30 Queensdown Rd, London E5 8NN
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(other days open by appointment only)