Two exhibitions
dal 14/2/2012 al 2/3/2012
Segnalato da
14/2/2012
Two exhibitions
Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA, Glasgow
The CCA will host the last exhibition in the series of shorter projects, "Underside, backside, inside, even" by Laura Aldridge and the penultimate exhibition in the Vanguard sapce, "Thinking Ourselves into Existence", curated by Psykick Dancehall.
Underside, backside, inside, even
Laura Aldridge
Thursday 16 February - Saturday 3 March 2012
Venue: CCA 2 / CCA 3
Laura Aldridge’s work moves freely between wall-based reliefs and sculptural installations, playing on the abilities of ‘collage’ to operate in two and three-dimensions. Her works use fabric, images (both photographic and silk-screened) and found objects to create installations that the artist describes as ‘expanded collage’. She often arranges elements of her works upon tables, low plinths or across gallery walls to bring ‘things’ together so that they might coalesce as a whole.
Underside, backside, inside, even is a series of new fabric sculptures, depicting oversized fabric pockets found on a variety of clothing, from pinafore dresses to the back pockets of jeans. Rendered and hand-stitched in great detail, larger than human scale and cut-out from their original context, these pockets become ‘things’, emphasising their potential to hold other objects or even the body. The sensory elements of Aldridge’s installations are important in setting up a relationship between ‘bodies’ to ‘objects’.
About Laura Aldridge
Laura Aldridge (born Frimley, England, 1978) graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2006, spending an exchange at CALARTS, Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include: Cairn, Pittenweem, Fife, 2011; Studio Voltaire, London, 2011 and Cats are not important at Transmission Gallery, 2011. Laura is also part of the Glasgow-based Poster Club.
Aldridge’s exhibition at CCA has been generously supported by The Elephant Trust.
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Thinking Ourselves into Existence
Thursday 16 February - Wednesday 29 February 2012
Venue: CCA 1
curated by Psykick Dancehall
Psykick Dancehall is Hannah Ellul and Ben Knight. They will use the Vanguard space to continue their ongoing discussions with musician, musicologist and founder of Sheffield-based record label Singing Knives, Jon Marshall. What are the politics of experimental music and how can they be explored through interdisciplinary means? What new forms of collaboration might this provoke?
Throughout February Psykick Dancehall will host a resource room and a listening space with an archive of recordings, as well as hosting discussions, talks and performances.
Press contact
Clare Harris Phone: 07957 652 701, 0141 352 4912 press@cca-glasgow.com
Opening: Wednesday 15 February 6-8pm
Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admssion Free