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15/1/2004

The Well

Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London

The centre is the well.. The centre is the threshold. The centre is mourning.
Edmund Jabes, Book of Questions.

Polly Gould Claudia Kappenberg Uriel Orlow Mark Osterfield Judy Price Kay Walsh Jo Wood

The Well centres around the work of Jo Wood who died in 1998. Co-curated and with new works by Mark Osterfield, Judy Price and Kay Walsh, the exhibition is inspired by their personal and professional relationship with Jo Wood.
Complementary works include performances by Claudia Kappenberg and Polly Gould and textual insertions by Uriel Orlow as a tribute to Jo Wood.

Relationship and loss are at the heart of this exhibition. Loss creates an absence, a void, a well to be filled; it has the capacity to transform the people who are left behind. Indeed, loss can become a generator of new relationships and connections between people as well as a generator of attempts to make sense of the absence that is felt, to experience the well as full rather than empty.

The spareness, precision and yet curiously enigmatic nature of Jo Wood's work demonstrates a sensibility which is key to the mood of this exhibition.
Installations of text works and film by Jo Wood, some shown for the first time, explore the material constructs of space through a fascination with the cosmic on the one hand and the minutiae of everyday experience on the other. The humour, intelligence and compassion of Jo Wood's work draw the audience into a reflective space wherein a subtle manipulation of light, sound and a textual play with language, invite us to experience the world and our place in it differently. Works shown are The Word, The Boat, Digging, Flight and 100 Bright Stars.

The new works by the other artists continue to explore ambiguities of language, image and form, proximity and distance. In-site, a video work by Kay Walsh, tracks an unfamiliar landscape in search of evidence. Shot in the dark, lit by torchlight, the camera momentarily rests on details of images only then to resume its endless search of the outlying terrain. Concerned with relationship, Mark Osterfield's sculptural pieces are dumb witnesses to unarticulated emotional landscapes. The source images of boats and the Hastings Net-shops are transformed into ciphers suggestive of narratives, but real only in their relationship to each other and the space they inhabit. In Judy Price's video piece Tone, a finger traces the rim of a glass - a circle of light. The empty vessel has become ephemeral; its potential weightlessness speaking of the reducibility of the object to nothing, its continuing resonance creating the potential for thought. The textual insertions of Uriel Orlow and the performances by Claudia Kappenberg and Polly Gould further widen the web of relationships and the interplay of text, image, sound and movement extending across and beyond the gallery space.

The exhibition marks the launch of the bookwork 'NGC 4038-39', a selection of Jo Wood's writings.

Private View and launch of the bookwork 'NGC 4038-39' by Jo Wood Friday 16 January 6 - 9 pm

Gallery Talk: Anne Tallentire and John Seth Sunday 15 February at 3pm.

Performances: Saturdays: 31 January and 21 February 5pm repeated at 6pm (booking advisable as space is limited)
Polly Gould The Dead and the Blind
Claudia Kappenberg
Composition of the Arbitrary

For further information and slides/digital images please contact Danielle Arnaud on 020 7735 8292

Next: Bologna Art Fair 22 to 26 January 2004
Transmogrifications 12 March to 25 April 2004
curated by Danielle Arnaud, Mo Throp and Maria Walsh
(artists include: Jan Dunning Pearl C. Hsiung Lynne Marsh Anj Smith Annie Whiles Sarah Woodfine)
Paulette Phillips 7 May to 20 June 2004 First solo show in London by Canadian artist.

Image: Kay Walsh One Day video 2003

Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road
London SE11 6SF UK
t/f +44 (0) 207 735 8292

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