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27/3/2003

Belonging

Focal Point Gallery (old location), Southend-on-Sea

This exhibition will bring together the work of two American female artists both of whom manufacture objects usually seen as toys or dolls, placing them in unexpected contexts before incorporating them into photographic or video pieces.

Elia Alba's work plays with ideas of personal identity. She transfers photographs of real faces onto muslin, hand sewing and stuffing them like pillows, some miniature, some life size. These 'dolls heads' are then re-photographed singly or in groups, in various outdoor and domestic settings to manifest their relationship to that particular surrounding.

Some of the works appear quite comical whilst others have a more uneasy feel to them. The show will also contain the video work, 'Unruhe'. This split screen work uses the same dolls heads, placing them in outdoor surroundings where they are manipulated by external forces, both natural and human, taking on a dreamlike quality.

Cynthia Greig uses scale to explore how our perceptions of self and reality are effected when our sense of natural order is disturbed. Her photographs enlarge to human scale tiny stand-ins for real objects; disrupting a conventional sense of proportion and making the small seem life-size and the human seem gigantic. In many of the images, the tiny objects are seen being held by real human hands, further disrupting our sense of reality.

The works exploit the unique facility of photography to vacillate between fact and fiction, asking the viewer to consider the complex nature of visual perception and how it affects our experience.

BELONGING has been organised in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire Galleries and will tour to The Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, from 4th September until 4th October 2003 (please call to confirm times 01707 285376)

Image: Cynthia Greig, Sunglasses, 2001

Focal Point Gallery
Victoria Avenue Southend-On-Sea SS2 6EX, Essex

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