Elizabeth Price
dal 11/9/2014 al 30/10/2014
Segnalato da
11/9/2014
Elizabeth Price
Motinternational, Bruxelles
A new video work, Sleep, the first part of a developing trilogy. With a group of dancing and singing women appearing as its visual proxy, the chorus claims to have gathered all the sunlight of the 20th century.
MOTINTERNATIONAL Brussels is delighted to announce Elizabeth Price’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. She will present a new video work, SLEEP, the first part of a developing trilogy.
The title of the work refers to digital ‘sleep’ – a term used to describe a computer on stand-by mode – which is a state of readiness, rather than one of repose. The restless existential disposition invoked and arguably generated by digital technologies is reflected in a psychological mood evoking the drifting, jolting dream-state of the insomniac, as well as in the narrative action, which unfolds the apocalyptic hallucination of a synthetic sun that never sets.
Revisiting the solar imagery from Price’s 2013 video SUNLIGHT, SLEEP speeds chronologically through thousands of images of the sun. From glass-plate slides produced in the early twentieth century to digital moving image generated at its close, Price presents this archive as a staccato animation, a rapidly ticking meter for a narrative related by a self-proclaimed ‘dramatic chorus’. The chorus ‘speaks’ via motion graphics that flow across the screen, as a choir of synchronized synthetic voices, and using the ‘RSVP’ format of digital speed-reading systems, designed to enhance productivity and focus concentration.
SLEEP is peopled only by women. With a group of dancing and singing women appearing as its visual proxy, the chorus claims to have gathered all the sunlight of the twentieth century and concentrated it into a relentless stream, in order to illuminate the ritualized action: hosiery models, striking stylized, melodramatically photophobic poses, accompanied by Crystal Gayle, singing in reverse.
The second part of the trilogy ‘A HISTORY OF HOSIERY’ will be completed in 2015.
Elizabeth Price (b. 1966, Bradford) lives and works in London. In 2012 Price was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize for her solo exhibition HERE at the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. A major solo exhibition of her work is on show at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, until 1 February 2015.
Recent solo exhibitions and screenings include presentations at Hå gamle prestegard, Norway (2014) Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal; Contemporary Art Society, London; Focal Point Gallery, Southend-On-Sea (all 2013), Tate Britain, London; Bloomberg SPACE, London; Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany (all 2012); Chisenhale Gallery, London; New Museum, New York (both 2011).
MOTINTERNATIONAL Brussels will be part of Brussels Art Days Saturday 13 September and Sunday 14 September.
Image : Elizabeth Price, Sleep, Film Still, 2014
PV Friday 12 September, 6 - 9pm
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