Staged
dal 23/6/2005 al 31/7/2005
Segnalato da
23/6/2005
Staged
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
Marion Coutts, Sophie Lascelles, Paulette Phillips and Sarah Woodfine. The artists in this exhibition use elements taken from theatre and circus as a device to challenge and trick the viewer. Artifice, as concept or medium, is the underlying thread in this group of works that takes us into a darker world of suspense and magic.
Marion Coutts, Sophie Lascelles, Paulette Phillips and Sarah Woodfine
The artists in this exhibition use elements taken from theatre and
circus as a device to challenge and trick the viewer. Artifice, as
concept or medium, is the underlying thread in this group of works that
takes us into a darker world of suspense and magic.
North Face / South Face is a pair of photo engravings made by Marion
Coutts while on the Kettle's Yard Fellowship in Cambridge. They derive
from images of the Combination Room at St John's College, Cambridge
where the artist was in residence. The historic setting for formal
meals, the room has a 20 metre long table and elaborate stucco ceiling.
The images, shot in sharp perspective, draw on the staged formality of
the long hall, with its symmetrical chairs and candlesticks and use
vertical mirroring to create two entirely new and ambiguous rooms, one
bathed in light, the other shrouded in darkness.
Sophie Lascelles presents a new 16 mm film, Akemi, which is the first of
a series of collaborative films with actress and circus artist, Akemi
Yamauchi. In this projection, a circus artist appears as a shadowed
figure spinning gracefully in an intense circle of light - a spot light.
Drawing from the early tradition of magic lanterns and optical toys,
this work explores shadows, the flickering of our thoughts and our own
relationship with films.
Paulette Phillips presents an integrated sculpture exploring invisible
or imagined phenomena; telepathy, hypnosis, attraction and
electromagnetism. Homewrecker#1 is a one-minute film loop, in which a
woman enacts a forceful gaze. A 16mm black and white film sequence is
shot in such a manner that the space around the woman appears to
contract and expand - alluding to the electrically charged environment.
Homewrecker#2 is a ghost-like levitation produced through an electro
magnetic sculpture. Paulette Phillips is interested in the history of
electricity and the flow of currents and how it is related to human
behaviour and the phenomena of human attraction.
Sarah Woodfine's depicts imaginary worlds which are reminiscent of
fairytales and dreamlike spaces, existing just outside reach in a
two-dimensional world. Her pencil drawings can be presented as
3-dimentional - cut-outs in a perspex box, or they can be encased as the
central image inside a snow dome. In both instances the image changes
at every angle making moving around the object part of the seeing.
Castle, tepee, hybrid plants and flowers are staged on a platform to
create a fantasy world that appears and disappears unnervingly.
Immage: Sophie Lascelles, Akemi, 2005, 16 mm film
Private view: Friday 24 June 6 - 9 pm
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road - London