Rachel Reupke
dal 20/1/2015 al 28/2/2015
Segnalato da
20/1/2015
Rachel Reupke
Cubitt Gallery, London
'Letter of Complain'. For the exhibition the artist presents new film installation of the artist. The work draws on a combination of banal and desperate letters of complaint to communicate something that could perhaps even be called celebratory.
Letter
of
Complaint
is
a
new
film
installation
by
Rachel
Reupke.
The
work
draws
on
a
combination
of
banal
and
desperate
letters
of
complaint
to
communicate
something
that
could
perhaps
even
be
called
celebratory.
The
highly
stylized
scenes
focus
on
the
moment
when
the
letters
were
written,
foregrounding
the
act
rather
than
the
complaint.
The
sets
include
reproduction
furniture
and
a
fetish
for
writing
equipment,
pens,
inkwells,
quills
–
images
that
show
anachronistic
technology
in
tightly
composed,
claustrophobic
frames.
Delicately
edited
together,
what
emerges
is
a
façade
and
a
social
commentary,
within
which
an
ambivalent
set
of
relations
between
action,
annoyance
and
paralysis
are
drawn
out.
The
film
follows
an
ongoing
interest
in
Reupke’s
work
in
the
expressive
properties
of
stock
images
and
the
ways
in
which
they
respond
to,
and
transform,
when
coupled
with
stillness
and
awkwardness.
It
is
a
process
of
introducing
a
level
of
fragility
and
ambivalence
into
images
that
have
been
emptied
of
these
properties.
Alongside
the
exhibition,
Letter
of
Complaint
is
accompanied
by
an
event
co-‐
presented
with
LUX
at
Café
OTO,
London;
a
part
live
event,
part
screening
drawing
on
the
work
of
Stephanie
Beroes
and
a
specifically
commissioned
soundtrack
by
Verity
Susman
on
18
February
2015.
Letter
of
Complaint
is
commissioned
by
Cubitt
in
partnership
with
Tyneside
Cinema,
Newcastle
upon
Tyne.
Following
the
showing
of
the
work
at
Cubitt,
from
6
March
–
12
April
2015
the
work
will
be
exhibited
in
The
Gallery,
Tyneside
Cinema’s
new
purpose-‐built
space
dedicated
to
the
moving
image,
which
uniquely
functions
as
an
exhibition
space
during
the
day
and
a
cinema
in
the
evening.
Cubitt
and
Tyneside
Cinema's
partnership
allows
Rachel
Reupke's
work
to
be
presented
in
two
distinct
and
complementary
contexts:
as
part
of
Cubitt’s
long
tradition
of
presenting
innovative
contemporary
work,
and
within
one
of
the
UK’s
leading
independent
cinemas
with
an
extensive
and
rich
history
of
supporting
the
moving
image
in
all
its
forms.
Rachel
Reupke
lives
in
London,
UK.
In
2013
she
had
a
solo
show
at
Cell
Project
Space,
London.
In
2014
her
work
has
been
shown
at
Ullens
Center
for
Contemporary
Art
Beijing,
China;
Museum
of
Modern
Art,
Vienna,
Austria;
Wattis
Institute,
San
Francisco,
USA;
Tate
Britain,
London;
Whitstable
Biennial,
UK;
and
South
London
Gallery.
She
was
nominated
to
the
2014
Jarman
Award.
Image: Rachel Reupke, Letter of Complaint
Press Contact:
fatima@cubittartists.org.uk
Opening: Wednesday 21 January 6.30–9pm
Cubitt Gallery
8 Angel Mews
Wed - Sun 12pm to 6pm