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12/1/2012

Tim Roda / Clare Langan

Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

The Butcher's Block

Tim Roda

Tim Roda's black and white family portraits are filled with reverberations of his childhood memories and family traditions as a site of individual and communal mythmaking. Incorporating his four sons and his wife into his photographs while enacting family scenes, Roda collapses the past and the present as well as the private and the public. He positions his family in elaborately staged arrangements, which he builds out of rough and simple materials like wood, clay, paper and even everyday items. His latest work explores themes of transition, whishes and dreams as well as the isolation of immigrants. Like memories the images are fragmented narratives, in which familiarity and strangeness blur. His technical process seems appropriately unfinished. He roughly cuts the borders of his photographs so that they look vulnerable and he allows or even creates chemical splashes and other technical flaws. This treatment of pictures adds to the atmosphere of hand crafted, not at all valuable and is in contrast to the usual clean cut photography. The invalidation corresponds with the content. Rodas work is beautiful and alarming. (Nasim Weiler)

Tim Roda (born 1977 in Lancaster) studied fine art at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University of Washington. His work is part of different public and private collections like Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria; Gaia Collection, Turin, Italy; Elton John's Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas; The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois. Roda lives and works in New York / USA.

Artist reception and book launch of "The Butcher's Block" with Tim Roda: February 3rd, 2012, at 7 pm in the gallery space of Galerie Anita Beckers

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Video Space: Clare Langan

A meditation on loss, "State of Suspension" (2012) explores the fragility of the human condition, frozen somewhere between life and death. Shot with a high-speed camera, a human figure and water defy the laws of gravity. The film directly investigates core aspects of physical matter and time. It is set to an original score by Irish / German composer Jürgen Simpson.

Much of Clare Langan's past oveure has explored the fragility of mankind in relation to nature with the camera firmly focused on the landscape and the environment. In "State of Suspension" the camera lens is turned more directly on the human figure itself exploring ideas of our existence, our mortality and the space in-between. This shift of focus in Langan's work opens out a new phase in her film and video works. In "State of Suspension" there is no clear distinction between dream and reality and the space that the film creates becomes a submersive world that the viewer is drawn into. In this emotive work, a woman appears to float midair, or levitate upwards, suggesting a transition from one world to another. Flashes of what seem to be memory interject the space in which the woman exists. Rain rises upwards, permeating each film frame.

Langan's approach to the filmic image has always been interdisciplinary taking both from the language of cinema as well as that of painting. Her attention to architecture and space is evident in the films locations as well has how the work is perceived as a video installation.

Image: Tim Roda, Untitled # 6, 26 x 22 in_66.04 x 55.88 cm

Opening 13 January 2012 - 19:00

Galerie Anita Beckers
Frankehallee 74 - Frankfurt
Tues-Fri 11 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 2 pm, and by appointment

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