Three exhibitions
dal 22/9/2005 al 30/10/2005
Segnalato da
22/9/2005
Three exhibitions
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
Lisa Fielding-Smith uses minimal props and costumes to create theatrical situations that engender of sense of anticipation, suspense and tension. Polly Gould works with drawing, video, sound and performance. Kate Scrivener's work references environmental observations that relay the effects of events within the landscape.
Lisa Fielding-Smith, Polly Gould and Kate Scrivener
The three artists in this exhibition present works imbued with fantasy, desire and
violence which test reality and open up many possibilities.
The protagonist in Lisa Fielding-Smith's new video Quiver performs versions of
female fantasy and desire. The artist uses minimal props and costumes to create
theatrical situations that engender of sense of anticipation, suspense and tension.
Quiver is a three-minute loop shot on colour digital video: three minutes being the
total time allowed during an archery tournament to shoot three arrows into the
target. The target in the film has been replaced by a similar size round silver
mirror resting on a stand in the middle of a field. The mirror fills the whole
frame of the image, in which the reflection of a woman stands wearing a long black
dress traditionally associated with mourning. She holds a large bow equipped with
devices used for accurate shooting such as a sight, various arm and finger
extensions and a long black stabiliser protruding from the front of the bow.
Polly Gould works with drawing, video, sound and performance. She is concerned with
our relationships as speaking subjects, the nature of memory and experience and the
uses and abuses of words and voice. Whether installations of paper, ink and pencil
drawings, texts and Polaroid photographs, audio sound tracks or video projections
with performance, the artist explores the role of conversation in our expressions of
vulnerability, violence, power and desire.
Kate Scrivener's work references environmental observations that relay the effects
of events within the landscape. The phenomena have potential that is outside of our
control and involve the extra ordinary, the extreme and the seemingly unaccountable.
Some Billions of Years of This investigates the complex nature of a given landscape
and hitch perceptual elements together through the relationships and organisation of
its layered painted parts. These parts combine detailed painted texts with
multi-layers of painterly surfaces. Some Billions of Years of This, the paintings
of a Supernova which is a fast and violent dying star, is constructed through texts
that are transcribed from one person's collection of newspaper cuttings of the 1969
moon landing and reports of space observations up to the present day.
Private view: Thursday 22 September 6 - 9 pm
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road - London