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6/2/2003

Two exhibitions

Pierogi 2000, New York

7 february - 10 march, 2003
opening: friday, 7 february, 7-9p

Dawn Clements
drawing
Gallery 1

Bogdan Perzyñski
balsamic vinegar of modena
interactive video projection
gallery 2
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dawn clements
artist statement

I'm interested in the interior spaces of melodramatic film and soap opera. In melodrama, characters are often confined, sometimes seemingly imprisoned within their domestic, social and public environments (i.e., home, club, hospital, workplace). This confinement provides feelings of both safety and anxiety for characters who often have problems acting freely or rationally. Often a safe, closed space becomes claustrophobic.

I'm also interested in the "encyclopedic" yet "finite" environments that Roland Barthes observes in Jules Verne's ship interiors ("the ceaseless action of secluding oneself") and in Des Esseintes sealed rooms described in Huysmans' Against Nature.

From these interests in the dynamics of "inside" (home, cave, cabin, cell), I have been producing large panoramic works on paper of my own domestic environment as well as drawings of spaces and figures from melodramatic movies and soap operas.

My work often begins as a small drawing of a single figure, object or space from life, film or TV. To these small drawings I sometimes add more paper as I draw more. "View from Bed" (2003) started as a ballpoint pen drawing of my bedside table and eventually became a panoramic drawing of everything I can see from bed. "Oval" (2000) began as a small ballpoint pen drawing of a grouping of figures and text from a soap opera and eventually, over the course of 5 years, became a 10-foot drawing of densely packed figures and texts from films and TV I watched. In "Kitchen and Bathroom" (2003) I drew, in sumi ink, each wall of each room from floor to ceiling over the course of a year in my railroad apartment in Brooklyn. The result is a panoramic drawing of the entire kitchen and bathroom "flattened" out. This 28-foot work is composed of many pieces of paper joined together. The vertical dimensions vary according to my distance from the wall/object.

Other ballpoint pen works present interiors seen in movies, such as the sprawling rooms of the Bel Air home from Robert Aldrich's 1955 film "The Big Knife," or composites of various interiors from Italian horror films and thrillers of the 1970s.

Dawn Clements, 2003
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bogdan perzyñski
balsamic vinegar of modena

Shot in one uninterrupted take, this video shows a dinner. With added filters and interactive code the process, practice, and concept is remapped. The mise-en-scene is open to the "reader's" interaction. A dinner turns into a video, a video into film, and film into digital mass. The lines of genre distinctions are obliterated. Video direction and playback speed are open to choice and play. The viewers' movements throughout the room determine the rate and degree of disintegration and reconstruction.

Image: bogdan perzyñski, balsamic vinegar of modena, video stills

PIEROGI 2000
177 north 9th street brooklyn, ny 11211 718.599.2144
noon to 6p friday through monday and by appointment
pierogi 2000 is an innovative art gallery in williamsburg, brooklyn, new york

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