Dave Green
dal 7/4/2009 al 16/5/2009
Segnalato da
7/4/2009
Dave Green
Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, London
Doppelganger. Green's practice can perhaps be seen as an attempt to combine humour with the loftier discourses of art history and critical theory. His work engages the viewer by firstly disarming them through comic intervention but on closer inspection reveals more fundamental issues on the nature of art, representation and subjectivity.
Dave Green¹s practice can perhaps be seen as an attempt to combine humour
with the loftier discourses of art history and critical theory. His work
engages the viewer by firstly disarming them through comic intervention but
on closer inspection reveals more fundamental issues on the nature of art,
representation and subjectivity.
For his exhibition Doppelganger at Another Roadside Attraction Gallery he
playfully examines the themes of duplicity, replication, identity and
dislocation. Central to the exhibition is an aquarium containing two
Ecuadorian hermit crabs. The hermit crab, a species with no shell of their
own, are known to adopt abandoned shells of other creatures or discarded
objects as protective outer amour. Emphasizing the artifice of its
environment Green has made a synthetic shell that is a facsimile of the
crab, prompting the grotesque notion that the creatures will adopt this
crude model as its home. Both absurd and unsettling it addresses questions
about the psychology of narcissism and the artifice of modern living.
Green¹s photographic diptych ŒFetch¹ depicts a dog chasing after a stick in
an anonymous urban park. The horizontal line of the horizon is mirrored in
the form of the stick the dog is chasing. A play is made on the archaic
meaning of the word fetch as a ghostly double of a living person believed to
be a warning of impending death.
In ŒWall Film¹ Green sets up a camera in front of a wall and waits for
someone to approach him to ask why he is filming a wall. His response is
usually minimal, allowing the passer by to project his own interpretation
onto the situation. Emanating from the blank surface of the wall these
projections of meaning become the content of the film.
Dave Green is a recent graduate from Sheffield Hallam University and has
exhibited in group shows at the End Gallery Sheffield, V22: The Wharf Road
Project and had a recent solo exhibition at Supplement, London
Preview Wednesday 8th April
Another Roadside Attraction Gallery
Bayford Street - London
Open Fri - Sun 12 - 6pm or by appointment
Free admission