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25/9/2002

The Back Room

Mafuji Gallery, London

David Campbell, Gail Pickering, Angus Wyatt, Invertebrate

curated by Glass: Irene Amore & Anna Vickery

Supported by the MA Creative Curating, Goldsmiths College
installation works
previous art works by the artists...

Dealing with issues of production and performance the artists in The Back Room have been invited to occupy the space of the gallery and produce works over the duration of the show.

Fluctuating between hidden and active sites of production, the works test the viewer in an open and playful manner. As they operate in disguise and at a distance each of the artists employ wit and displacement to investigate the constantly shifting boundaries between artist, artwork and viewer.

The Back Room is a metaphor for considering our perceptions and experience of art and its processes in relation to everyday life, whilst also employing a strategy to explore and comment on the production of artworks today in and for the gallery environment.

David Campbell
David Campbell's work revisits the mythology of popular culture and comments upon forms and attitudes established within the history of fine art Through re presenting such forms and attitudes in a displaced context and collapsing their aura, he explores the effects of their relics in contemporary practice. He is also a member of the Liverpool-based group Common Culture, and has shown extensively in England, Greece, USA.

Gail Pickering
Often employing actors as a part of the work, Gail Pickering's installations simultaneously implicate and question the activity of the viewer through a witty yet dark sense of humour. She also produces drawings that are often illustrative and satirical in their style and content, and function as instructions to her performances/tableaux vivant. Both drawings and performances set out to undermine each other's forms, serving to re-enact the absurd humour underlying certain social attitudes, and claiming a propositive role in self-defeating gestures. Gail Was selected in May for the second BowieArt window at Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus, and has exhibited in the UK and Europe.

Angus Wyatt
Angus Wyatt's characters and narratives ironically comment on the celebrity system of the artworld, focussing on its show-business mechanisms and language. By reproducing the successful and glamorous life of his 'artist' alter-ego (involved in major art events such as the Turner Prize and the Venice Biennal), his works serve to highlight both the hysteria and seriousness which accompanies the celebrity status of the artist. Angus has shown both in the UK and abroad, and has been selected for New Contemporaries 2002.

Invertebrate
Invertebrate is based on a collaboration between the artists Gaia Alessi, Richard Bradbury, Eileen Simpson, and Ben White. It is an ongoing research project whose performative nature strikes an awkward balance between conviviality and hostility, visibility and invisibility, presence and observation. Invertebrate was formed in 2001, and has been involved in a number of interventions in London. Gaia Alessi and Richard Bradbury have also recently collaborated for David Bowie's Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall, and for the show SFG at the Stephen Friedman Gallery. Eileen Simpson's works appeared in the Whitechapel Centenary exhibition, whilst Ben White contributed last year to the show Club at Beaconsfield.

Image: a work by Angus Wyatt

The Back Room is organised and produced by Glass. For further information and images please contact Irene Amore (07960 526849) or Anna Vickery (07870 626826), email glass-projects@fsmail.net.

Extended opening times for F-EST (see http://www.f-est.com for further details):
Friday October 4, 1pm - 9pm
Saturday October 5, 11am - 7pm
Sunday October 6, 12pm - 6pm
Sep 26 - Oct 12 | Thurs - Sat, 1-5pm
Private View: Saturday Sep 28, 6-8pm

Mafuji Gallery
2nd Floor, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ

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