Reza Aramesh
dal 4/6/2005 al 5/6/2005
Segnalato da
4/6/2005
Reza Aramesh
Gasworks Gallery, London
The Key of Dreams. Taking inspiration from film 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant', the artist's performance will look at how themes of power and desire arise through encounter with the human body. The performance will be the basis for a new photographic work specially commissioned for the billboard on Gasworks' facade.
Performance event
Gasworks Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of its upcoming
performance and billboard project with Reza Aramesh.
Aramesh's highly
theatrical photographs are concerned with themes of perception and image,
particularly their relation to issues of cultural constructs through
globalisation and the media. A recent body of work, which draws heavily on
compositions from Renaissance painting, uses non-professional actors to
create images which layer the politics of stereotypical perceptions of
gender, sexuality and race.
For Gasworks Gallery Aramesh will be staging his latest performance The Key
of Dreams at 3pm on Sunday 5th June. Taking inspiration from Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Aramesh's new
performance will look at how themes of power and desire arise through
encounter with the human body, and how appearance affects, and is affected
by, notions of difference. The performance will be the basis for a new photographic work specially commissioned for the billboard on Gasworks’ façade.
This billboard project by Reza Aramesh is the second in a series of
billboard projects on the facade of the Gasworks building. The first
project was a commission by artist Eileen Perrier in November 2004.
Image: Of This Men Shall Know Nothing, performed at Thomas Goode
store, London, 14 April 2005
Gasworks Gallery is financially supported by Arts Council England
Performance event: Sunday 5 June 3-5pm
Billboard Project: 10 June - 30 August
Gasworks Gallery
155 Vauxhall Street - London