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6/10/2011

Clunie Reid

Motinternational, London

Clunie Reid opens her third show at MOTINTERNATIONAL, London with a new series of photographic collage works complementing her concurrent exhibition in our Brussels gallery. Printed on the same holographic material and at the same scale, the London works adopt a slightly different tone, presented within the totality of a single installation.

The works start life as small photographs taken by Reid, mainly in the studio: these are printed and then worked on again. The initial small collages are then rephotographed, blown up and printed on holographic paper and mounted on dibond. Reid then reworks these adding further elements of collage. With her last series for Brussels, Reid wrote directly on the surface of the print as a way to finalise them, but with these pieces she prefers to find incidental text within the image, which is brought to the fore through her photography and finalised by what Reid intends to be read as a thoughtless or "off-hand" placement of collage, stuck directly over the centre of the image.

Reid plays with the seriality of image and text to make modular blocks for potentially infinite wall collages, mirroring the way we access media in our virtual lives. It is only through installation that Reid determines how many of these modulars become a complete work or image. Photographs become like notes or words to be reused and reordered to create new meaning with each nuance of placing. Reid photographs our virtual environment through the portal of her laptop screen; never having to leave the studio, she can access our collective consciousness and claim it as her own. The lens remains the overseer, catching even the artist; lying on the floor of her studio, ambiguous whether she is dead, unconscious, asleep or drunk, victim or laid-back witness to our projected interpretations. She tries to hide her identity by placing a flower sticker over her head. This masking of the self is reminiscent of digital censorship on porn sites or social networking images where the subject has not authorised the use of their image, but Reid remains omnipresent.

The text within the installation hints at disaster, a breaking down of society with danger and degradability, articulated at every turn. One work reads "Danger falling body parts" - a torso in high heels plummets in front of the picture plane. Another reads, "expound exonerate deathbed (ipad cover)", slapped over which, a woman bares her buttocks. Reid forefronts aggressive and potentially violent female sexuality, empowering the misogynous imagery that she rips from everyday media.

Clunie Reid lives and works in London, She has exhibited internationally at major institutions including Art Now, Tate Britain 2010; Free, New Museum, New York, 2010; Dumb Down, Get Dressed, Move Out, Studio Voltaire, London, 2010; Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2010; In the Event of Suspicion, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany, 2010; Karaoke - Photographic Quotes, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2009; Out There, Not Us, Focal Point, Southend, 2009 and Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, 2008. Her work is included in numerous important private collections as well as public collections, including Tate and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Clunie Reid is currently showing at MOTINTERNATIONAL BRUSSELS until November 12th.

Image: Banal Actual, 2011. Marker pen, collage, inkjec print on silver backed holographic paper mounted on di bond, 84x149 cm

PV 7th October 6-8pm

MOTINTERNATIONAL
Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studios
8 Andrews Road London E8 4QN.
Open
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6 and by appointment.
The gallery is closed on bank and public holidays.

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