Nadia Hebson
dal 3/7/2003 al 27/7/2003
Segnalato da
3/7/2003
Nadia Hebson
Transition Gallery, London
Nadia Hebson's Goria is a micro version of Phantasmagoria, which premiered at Chapter, Cardiff in February 2003. This new work reflects Hebson's preoccupation with the ambivalence of emotion; exploring overbearing, amorphous sentiments it creates an uneasy melancholic, narrative. Goria's sentient landscape; half remembered, half seen; examines how emotion when cut loose from the personal, takes on its own life.
Goria
Nadia Hebson's Goria is a micro version of Phantasmagoria, which premiered
at Chapter, Cardiff in February 2003. This new work reflects Hebson's
preoccupation with the ambivalence of emotion; exploring overbearing,
amorphous sentiments it creates an uneasy melancholic, narrative. Goria's
sentient landscape; half remembered, half seen; examines how emotion when
cut loose from the personal, takes on its own life.
Goria contains a diorama of grottos, trees and painted self-portraits, which
together form an installation struck uncompromisingly between sculpture and
painting. This tableaux vivant extends the emotional territory of Hebson's
paintings by creating a mental as well as physical space and thereby binding
the viewer to her world by intensifying their relationship with the work.
This whole 'phantasmagoria' is in fact constructed as if it were a painting
and Hebson wants it to function as such. In Goria it is possible to find
worlds within worlds, paintings within paintings. It is listless, retina
burning, slow-dreaming and inescapable, emulating a strange delirium where
the last thing seen unnerves and consoles simultaneously.
Goria is a tantalising, multi layered installation with myriad references;
from the paintings of Rogier Van Der Weyden, Grunwald and Hans Memling, to
Victorian wardian cases and magic lantern shows, to the sunken forests of
Ivan's childhood and Akira Kurosawa's exhaustive Dreams.
An accompanying pamphlet entitled Phantasmagoria with text by Annabel Dover
will be available at the opening.
Nadia Hebson completed her post graduate diploma at the Royal Academy
Schools in 2000. She has exhibited widely including in Peter Blake's room at
the Royal Academy Summer Show (2000) and in the Emerging Artists Award
Exhibition at BOC Headquarters selected by Matthew Collings (2002). Awards
have included the British Institute Drawing Prize, and the Andre De Segonzac
travel award.
Preview Friday 4 July 6-9
Show 5 - 27 July Fri-Sun 12-6
Contact Cathy Lomax for further information
Transition
110a Lauriston Road, London E9 07941 208566