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15/6/2015

Emma Hart

Austrian Cultural Forum London, London

Curated by Victor Wang

For the second exhibition in a series of solo presentations that explore the contemporary relationship between sculpture and digitisation – the dissemination of images and their materiality – the Austrian Cultural Forum is proud to present ‘STICKY’, a solo exhibition by artist Emma Hart. For Hart, sculpture, and more recently ceramics, provides material to physically corrupt and 'dirty' digital images. In the exhibition artworks such as Mate (2014) make it unclear where digitisation ends and where sculpture, or the physicality of ‘being a person’, begins. Embracing this difficulty, we search for a break in the smooth surfaces of our mediated world. The limitations of the image and screen are exposed through human emotion and voice.

Confronting the virtualization of our feelings and the monitoring of both objects and ourselves, the exhibition presents a body of work that highlights Hart’s intermingling of materials and daily experience. Pushing sculpture into the world of images and arousing more life and embarrassment out of them, the exhibition attempts to disrupt the digital flattening of our reality. Utilising the architectural space of the two upper floors of the Austrian Cultural Forum, the exhibition is spread throughout the building, with no central focus. Pieces like The Pits (2014) consider the original purposes of these spaces and play with their intended use. The artworks exhibited in STICKY were originaly commissioned by the Folkestone Triennial 2014.

Emma Hart lives and works in London; her work has featured in exhibitions and performances both in the UK and internationally. These include the solo exhibitions ‘Spread’, Art Exchange (2015); ‘Giving It All That’, Folkestone Triennial (2014); ‘Dirty Looks’, Camden Arts Centre (2013); ‘M20 Death Drives’, Whitstable Biennale (2012) and ‘TO DO’, Matt’s Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Only the Lonely’, La Galerie CAC, France; ‘Hey I’m Mr.Poetic’, Wysing Arts Centre (2014); ‘Bloody English’, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles (2013) and ‘The World Turned Upside Down’, Mead Gallery, Coventry (2013). Hart was awarded a Random Acts commission for The Jarman Award 2013. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood /Film and Video Umbrella Awards for ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, with an exhibition at Jerwood Space, London.

She received an MA in Fine Art from the Slade University of Fine Arts in 2004 and completed her PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University in 2013. Hart is a lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Image: Emma Hart , Screenshot, OI MATE oh mate, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening: Tuesday 16 June, 7-9pm

Austrian Cultural Forum London
28 Rutland Gate, London
Opening times
Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm

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