Rhys Coren
dal 14/9/2014 al 11/12/2014
Segnalato da
14/9/2014
Rhys Coren
Jerwood Visual Arts, London
If We Can Dance Together. For this exhibition the artist has produced an installation comprised of multiple hand-drawn animations, accompanied by an audio piece by DJs Bahamian Moor.
Jerwood Visual Arts presents new work by London-based artist Rhys Coren. For this exhibition the artist has produced an installation comprised of multiple hand-drawn animations, accompanied by an audio piece by DJs Bahamian Moor.
In a multi-screen installation, individual hand-drawn animations loop independently of one another, as a soundtrack assembled by DJ duo Bahamian Moor plays out through wireless headphones. Choreographed to the beat, each animation is based on the 120 bpm tempo of the soundtrack, setting an underlying rhythm to the installation.
The viewer is an essential mechanism to the work, linking the disparate animations and soundtrack. With the audio piece as backdrop to the imagery, patterns within patterns emerge, animations slip in and out of synchronicity with one another. Individually the animations dance, permanently attuned to the strict tempo set by the soundtrack, complex relationships form and fall apart, punctuated by moments of total lucidity. The work is a self-organising entity, consisting of individual perspectives and personal narratives, fused by the experience of a singular, emotive response to music. Ultimately the clarity established by the installation collapses as the headphones are removed, and the viewer returns to the café setting of the Project Space.
Coren works across animation, painting, writing and audio; influenced by dance music culture, fashion in and surrounding football, story telling, set design, and abstract and experimental film. His processes are specific, complex, and labour-intensive, often at odds with the resulting imagery. At times stripped-back and reduced, at others heavily layered and vivid, Coren’s work prompts an imaginative reconstruction of the exhaustive practice of an artist.
Rhys Coren (b.1983) is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools, London (2013-16), and graduated from
BA(Hons) Art & Visual Culture at UWE, Bristol (2002-06). Recent solo and two-person presentations include: ‘Four to
the Floor’, Horatio Jr., London (2014); ‘Beat the Box’ with Loz Chalk, Corfu, London (2013) and ‘Apparel and
Ornament: A Research Project by SPACE and Rhys Coren’, SPACE, London (2013). Selected group exhibitions
include: ‘E-Vapour-8’, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2014); ‘Symbolic Logic’, Identity Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2014) and
‘Welcome to Corfu’, The Depot, London (2014). Coren also works prolifically as a facilitator of new work by artists,
co-founding several organisations who commission and present work by other artists, including: ‘Opening Times –
Digital Art Commissions’; ‘Corfu’ and ‘bubblebyte.org’. He has been the recipient of several residency programmes,
including; ‘Project Space 11’, Artist Residency, Plymouth (2011); and ‘International Studio Curatorial Program’
Residency, New York City, USA (2009). For more information please visit: http://rhyscoren.co.uk/
Project Space is part of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme and provides exhibition and development opportunities
to emerging artists; offering a small grant to develop new experimental work, which is then exhibited within the
unique environment of Café 171 at Jerwood Space, adjacent to the main gallery spaces. Presenting work that
considers and responds to the social and architectural space in which it is located, it is curated by Sarah Williams,
Jerwood Visual Arts Gallery Manager. Since 2004 it has presented new work from artists including Anna Bunting-
Branch, Emma Charles, Alec Kronacker, Meg Mosley, Sara Nunes Fernandes, Johann Arens, Matthew Johnstone,
Katie Schwab and Jamie George, Ben Senior, Ralph Dorey, Mindy Lee, Patrick Coyle, Gemma Anderson, Annabel
Tilley, Alice Browne, Holly Antrum. For more information please visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/projectspace
Jerwood Visual Arts is a year-round contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at Jerwood
Space, and on tour nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts supports and showcases the work of talented emerging artists,
makers and curators. It also aims to make connections and provoke conversations within and across disciplines.
The programme is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. For more information on please visit:
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting
artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. It works with artists across art forms, from dance
and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts. For more information on the Jerwood Charitable Foundation
please visit: www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org
Image: Rhys Coren, Screen grab from Four to the Floor, 2014. Courtesy the artist.
For further information please contact Jerwood Visual Arts: 020 7654 0179 or jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk or visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/projectspace
Jerwood Visual Arts Project Space
Café 171, Jerwood Space, London, SE1 0LN
Opening Times: Mon - Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 2pm
Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays
Admission: Free