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29/5/2003

Visions for the future V

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

NEW COMMISSIONS BY THE FRUITMARKET GALLERY

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
MICHELLE NAISMITH

VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE V, the fifth exhibition in The Fruitmarket Gallery's four-year series of new art in Scotland, presents new works by Michelle Naismith and Rosalind Nashashibi, winner of the 2003 Beck's Futures Art Prize.

Both artists' work takes the form of projections. Nashashibi's observational films capture ordinary lives and spaces contrasting with the theatrical scenarios and fictional hybrid characters created by Naismith.

The 16mm films of Glasgow-based Rosalind Nashashibi, 30, are naturalistic works of documentation without commentary. She films in public and private spaces, capturing everyday activity in which a sense of time being spent or contained is explored.

Nashashibi presents a new work, Humaniora, set around British hospital buildings, along with recent films MIDWEST and MIDWEST FIELD, portraying the people and neighbourhoods of Omaha, Nebraska, where Nashashibi completed an artist's residency (2001-2002). The latter films featured in the exhibition presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, of Beck's Futures 3. Awarding the £24,000 exhibition prize, Chair of the Judging Panel Michael Landy said the judges were unanimous in their decision - 'Rosalind's work is simply exceptional.'

Nashashibi's interest lies in the way human activity shapes landscapes and the subsequent changes to structures and spaces.

'There are no commentaries, just observation,' Nashashibi says. 'The works are a testament to the presence of the watcher, as well as a record of what took place. I never cover up the fact that I am filming. I try to disappear somehow behind the camera so that I have little or no effect on my surroundings'.

Michelle Naismith, 36, who lives in Glasgow and Nantes, France, makes videos, influenced by video work of the late 60s and 70s, that are theatrical fusions of fact and fiction. For her new video, Au Revoir Moodle Pozart (2003), she develops the deliberate humour in her work to disarm the viewer, introducing a hybrid renaissance character inspired by a poodle and eighteenth century figures Mozart, Swiss psychic Anton Mesmer and German philosopher Schopenhauer.

Taking a theatrical stance and often utilising props or partial disguise, she demonstrates a self-conscious thread and distance within the work, prompting the viewer to question the certainty of what she/he is viewing. 'I am trying to formulate my own quasi-mythic systems, developing these as tools or languages to help generate other ideas,' she says.

Michelle Naismith and Rosalind Nashashibi will exhibit at the 2003 Venice Biennale Art Fair. Nashashibi's work will be showcased as external projections on to the Scottish Pavilion, sponsored by the Scottish Arts Council, whilst work by Naismith's Nantes-based research group MultiPoint is featured in Utopia Stations, curated by Hans Urlich Obrist, Rikrit Tirivanija and Molly Nesbitt.

Both artists completed MFA degrees at Glasgow School of Art between1998-2000. Subsequently they have widely exhibited their work. Naismith has exhibited in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, London, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Glasgow and London. She has featured in The Fruitmarket Gallery exhibitions presence, 2002, and My Father is the Wise Man of the Village, 2001. Nashashibi has exhibited in Australia, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine, United States of America, Glasgow, Llandudno, London, Sheffield and Southampton. Last year she completed a two-month artist's residency in East Jerusalem.

The Visions For The Future series commissions and showcases the work of leading artists from or based in Scotland. The final exhibition in the series will present new work by Paul Carter and Chad McCail (4 October - 22 November 2003).

Previous exhibitions in the series have featured Ross Sinclair and Martin Boyce (September - November 1999), Anne Bevan and Graeme Todd (February - April 2000), Annette Heyer and Steve Hollingsworth (October - November 2000) and Graham Fagen and Victoria Morton (November 2002 - January 2003).

Image: Michelle Naismith, Au Revoir Moodle Pozart, 2003

Exhibition supported by the Scottish Arts Council and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Additional support The Cruden Foundation.

PREVIEW
Friday 30 May, 6.30-8.30pm

EXHIBITION
Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm
Sun 12pm - 5pm
Admission free.

ARTISTS' TALKS
MICHELLE NAISMITH
Thurs 5 June, 6.30pm
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
Sat 21 June, 2.00pm

Admission free.
Advance booking recommended.

NEW PUBLICATIONS
MICHELLE NAISMITH
pp64, full colour illustrations,
225 x 170mm
Texts by Douglas Park, Dessislava Dimova and Mick Peter.
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
pp64, full colour illustrations,
225 x 170mm
Texts by Francis McKee, Lucy Skaer and Sarah Tripp.

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Tel: 0131 226 8182
Fax: 0131 220 3130

The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street
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