Faye Heller
dal 4/9/2003 al 5/10/2003
Segnalato da
4/9/2003
Faye Heller
Wiebke Morgan Gallery, London
Faye Heller's large-scale photomontages are among the most stunning of all lens-based work currently being made. In her new series "Violet's Violent End", at the Wiebke Morgan Gallery, Heller returns to her signature examination of the syntax of visual narrative, presenting the viewer with an elegant demonstration of how tension is designed.
Faye Heller's large-scale photomontages are among the most stunning of all lens-based work currently being made. In her new series "Violet's Violent End", at the Wiebke Morgan Gallery, Heller returns to her signature examination of the syntax of visual narrative, presenting the viewer with an elegant demonstration of how tension is designed.
Blurring fact and fiction, Heller juxtaposes a precisely chosen selection of instants in the 'life' of her female protagonist ('named' for the first time?), leading us to catch "a shift of atmosphere; a sense that something is about to change" while retaining a more analytic awareness of the "full stops and commas in a moment". In something of a new departure for Heller, the series marries gorgeous colour and black & white imagery within a single work, perhaps in response to the greater 'peril' she is building for 'Violet'. As usual, while the pieces are clearly charged by a strong connection with our collective unconscious's catalogue of the political and psycho-sexual, Heller opts to avoid any overdetermination of the viewer's reading of the work, just as she sidesteps the idea of a simple conclusion to the narrative she offers us. The terrible event she hints at remains only possible and we are trapped in a state of flux with 'Violet', observing 'Violet' and observing our own responses.
In our basement space we're presenting a selection of Peter Locker's recent digital moving image work, using both large-scale projection and monitors, and his new kinetic sculpture, "Distractor". The pieces explore themes of time and its perception, and expose the unfamiliar in what passes for the everyday. The show reveals Locker's engagement with technology to be, in part, a humanising project; in "Snowbound" transmuting contemporary interactive software sequences into a grainy TV memory; in "Kalitrope" entering into a digital collaboration with those 'outdated machines', the zoetrope and kaleidoscope, to jewel-like effect.
Faye Heller is a graduate of the Slade School of Art, and was awarded a Charles Saatchi bursary in 2000. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, the Netherlands and London (including a show with us, last Autumn, of "stunning effects. a witty engagement with media and film moments" Time Out)
Locker is a graduate of London Guildhall University's Fine Art dept. This is his second London show.
Wiebke Morgan Gallery
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London E2 7DP
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