Gitte Weise Gallery
Sydney
56 Sutherland Street - Paddington
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Two exhibitions
dal 7/5/2002 al 1/6/2002
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7/5/2002

Two exhibitions

Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney

Rosemary Laing, 'Bulletproofglass'. Rosemary Laing's utterly individual images remain in collective memory as ciphers for what it is like to be alive in the opening years of the 21st century. Slide Show Land: a series of installations by Elvis Richardson. Her projects investigative in nature, use found objects as raw materials to reveal, classify and map a collective memory.


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ROSEMARY LAING
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Rosemary Laing's utterly individual images remain in collective memory as ciphers for what it is like to be alive in the opening years of the 21st century.
It's a vision of a mediated world that exists only as transmission: denatured airfields with jet planes slathered into condensed groundfog; forest landscapes frozen into a hailstorm of pixels; synthetic carpets placed in raw bluestone quarries like alien pods; stalling engines and brides falling out of the sky.

In a vocabulary that lurches between postmodern circumlocution and the swooning theatrical eloquence of St Theresa, the current show is ignited by a violent act.
(Bring on the javelin of gold with the iron tip, O Seraphim!)

An ungrounded bride floats suspended, or flies (if the dead can fly), or falls euphorically after being hit by some high velocity weapon. The impact sends pigeons fluttering like tossed gravel.
The work curries favour with our gorgeous social romance with weddings, only to blow those pieties away.

These unresolvable results are Laing's terrain: an anxious meltdown of Paul Virilio and Francesco Goya punched up in into cinematic affectation in the photographic print.

Extracted from the catalogue essay by George Alexander

Image: Rosemary Laing, groundspeed #1, 2001 c type photograph 110 x 229 cm

OPENING WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 6-8pm

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Elvis Richardson
Slide Show Land

Slide Show Land is a series of installations by Elvis Richardson. Her projects investigative in nature, use found objects as raw materials to reveal, classify and map a collective memory.
The artist through various Internet auction has purchased over 30,000 slides, advertised as 'travel and family slides' sites. Dated from 1940 - 1995 these slides impart a recent history already jettisoned and redundant, of local and world travel, weddings, Christmas and other family occasions, souvenir slides from monuments and cities, and snapshots of everyday life. Narratives are created through reading the images and sequence and further the viewer into an investigative process of piecing together a possible story or identity based on a 'true story'.
Slide Show Land is for the obsessive and voyeur as well as the nostalgic and lost.

Elvis Richardson is the recipient of the prestigious Samstag Scholarship and has recently graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University New York City.

Opening Wednesday 8 May 6 - 8pm

For further information please contact
Gitte Weise Gallery 56 Sutherland Street Paddington NSW 2021 Australia
tel/fax + 61 2 9360 2659

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