Kerry Tribe and Christine Borland
dal 12/5/2011 al 9/7/2011
Segnalato da
12/5/2011
Kerry Tribe and Christine Borland
Camden Arts Centre, London
For this exhibition, Tribe will show her new body of work Dead Star Light, commissioned as part of the 3 Series, alongside other existing works. Borland's most recent project began when she discovered a fibreglass sculpture in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Over the last nine months Borland has set up a studio so people could witness her transformative process of recasting the figure.
Kerry Tribe - Dead Star Light
American artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe's large-scale projects in video, film and sound form an on-going investigation into memory, subjectivity and doubt. For this exhibition, Tribe will show her new body of work Dead Star Light, commissioned as part of the 3 Series - a collaboration between Camden Arts Centre, London, Arnolfini, Bristol and Modern Art Oxford, alongside other existing works.
Dead Star Light is comprised of three works which continue Tribe’s study of memory and it’s opposite, forgetting. Each work structurally engages with a different technology in innovative ways: 16mm film (Parnassius Mnemosyne); reel-to-reel audio (Milton Torres Sees a Ghost); and video (The Last Soviet), all 2010. The works relate to questions of personal and historic memory and share common themes of erasure, flight, portraiture and the role of the viewer.
Dead Star Light will be shown together with H.M. (2009), a work which also explores memory but from an individual, neurological perspective. This film installation, an experimental documentary about an anonymous amnesiac known within the scientific community simply as Patient H.M., sets up a structure whereby the viewer’s own power of memory is challenged.
3: 3 artists / 3 spaces / 3 years is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Christine Borland - Cast from nature
Borland's most recent project began when she discovered a fibreglass sculpture in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. The sculpture records the dissection of an unidentified man who had been posed with his back arched in a manner resembling Michelangelo’s Pieta (1498–1499). Over the last nine months Borland has set up a ‘live’ studio so people could witness her transformative process of recasting the figure. Freed from his plinth and newly cast and restored, the anonymous man and is displayed in a manner more akin to the original pose of the Pieta. This poetic transformation is at the heart of Borland’s work in which the certainty of science is put into question by the ambiguity of art.
‘I want people to be thinking back to the dissection process, which was the starting point here. In doing something hands on I’m inserting myself in an active role. There's always an assumption that what I’m doing is a simple critique. But I'm not just saying look, this poor guy was anatomised, posed, cast, made into a sculpture... it's making me complicit, adding complexity to the whole story.’ Christine Borland
Image: Christine Borland - Cast From Nature
Courtesy the artist, comissioned by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, photo: Ruth Clark
For images and further information please contact Elisa Ruff: elisa.ruff@camdenartscentre.org
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