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30/7/2003

Scrambled

Motinternational, London

Simona Brinkmann, Maria Fusco, Melanie Stidolph

Take three eggs, making sure that they are fresh and not out of date. Gently crack each egg on the side of the bowl and empty the shell's contents into the bowl. Take a fork or whisk and beat the eggs until they take on a uniform yellow consistency. Add a drop of milk and beat some more. Next, put a small knob of butter into a small saucepan and melt over a low heat. When the butter is frothing pour in your egg mixture and stir with a wooden spoon, making sure that the egg does not stick to the bottom. Take the pan off the heat just before the egg becomes too solid, as it will continue to cook even off the heat. Salt and pepper to taste and serve on hot buttered toast.

MOT has chosen three artists who through the mediums of text, photography and video installation, re-present information and embody it with fresh codes, just waiting to be cracked.

Simona Brinkmann is an Italian artist, living and working in London. She was recently included in this yearx{2019}s Oriel Mostyn Gallery open. The piece that she will be showing at MOT is a five-screen video installation entitled COMMA. Each screen shows a side on view of a book with the pages in constant movement created by an unseen hand flicking through the book like some manic speed-reader. The text on the pages cannot be read and the book's knowledge is denied, rhythm replaces meaning as each screen plays the same sequence at a different speed. The sound has been separated and played through five amplifiers building upon the cacophonic visual, filling the void between language.

Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born artist and writer based in London currently working with Book Works. She is also a freelance press consultant for arts organisations and regularly contributes to arts and visual culture magazines. She has published her own artist's book, 'Something wonderful is going to happen' and is co-editing a book on independent publishing for release in 2004. Maria views all these different aspects of her career as constituents of her art practice and this constant blurring of the boundaries made her a perfect artist to show within the context of SCRAMBLED. When we invited her over to MOT to show us her work she talked about a piece she was working on that took as its starting point the Film " The Conversation", which is about surveillance.For SCRAMBLED she will be making a wall based text piece based on dialogue taken from x{2018}The Conversationx{2019} and The x{2018}French Connectionx{2019}. We have also asked Maria to provide us with a text-based work for the inside of this leaflet.

Melanie Stidolph studied under the tutorage of Jeff Wall at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Stidolphx{2019}s time in Canada culminated in a solo exhibition at Kamloops Art Gallery where she showed, a series of photographs called Shallows. These works were extremely important to Stidolph, exploring themes of women in art, places of presentation and visual and physical distortions created when photographing subjects in water. On returning to London Stidolph exhibited at Five Years and set up an exhibition space within her home, Fremantle. For SCRAMBLED, Melanie will be showing one print, denying her the unifying structure of a series. Over the last couple of years Stidolph has aimed to distance herself from the preconceived illustration of her initial concepts and has instead let the camera act as a distilling device, capturing moments that she herself may have missed. The image for the show is one such rescued instance that is only visible through the lens, distorted reality, fresh with new meaning.

Then the ogre placed the hen on the table and shouted "Lay," whereupon the hen laid a golden egg. Another roared the ogre, and another golden egg was laid. Again and again, in a voice of thunder, the ogre shouted "LAY". SCRAMBLE, SCRAMBLE, SCRAMBLE.

Future exhibitions at MOT
FULL ENGLISH 5th Sept - 10th Oct
Kiera Bennett, Louise Harris, Pat O'Connor, Nicola Ollis, Russell Oxley, Audrey Reynolds, Nicholas Symes, Vicky Wright

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