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25/11/2014

Bloomberg New Contemporaries

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2014 Selectors: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga.

The ICA is delighted to welcome back Bloomberg New Contemporaries to its galleries for the 4 th year running. Marking its 65th anniversary, selectors Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga have chosen works by 55 of the most promising artists emerging from UK art schools from 1,400 submissions. Previous New Contemporaries include Jake & Dinos Chapman , Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, David Hockney and Mike Nelson as well as more recent emerging artists including Ed Atkins, Peles Empire, Nathaniel Mellors, Haroon Mirza and Laure Prouvost.

The Bloomberg New Contemporaries for 2014 are: Lucy Bee ch , Dinah Berger, Louise Bradley, Jesc Bunyard, Matt Copson, Racheal Crowther, Yi Dai, Tajinder Dhami, Bee Flowers, Alice Gauthier, Marco Godoy, Victoria Grenier, Stacey Guthrie, Alice Hartley, Katie Hayward, Ed Hill, Yussef Hu, Matthew Humphreys, Henry Hu ssey, Marie Jacotey - Voyatzis, Lucy Joyce, Melissa Kime, Xiao - Yang Li, Inga Lineviciute, Andrea Medjesi - Jones, Jonathan Meira, MKLK, Ebrel Moore, Emily Motto, Emely Neu, Laura O'Neill, Lydia Ourahmane, Athena Papadopoulos, Catherine Parsonage, Imran Perrett a, Miroslav Pomichal , Charles Richardson, Simon Senn, Xin Shen, Will Sheridan Jr., Mustafa Sidki, David Cyrus Smith, Marilia Stagkouraki, Jane Stobart, Camille Summers - Valli, John Thole, Ian Tricker, Milou van der Maaden , Tess Vaughan, Adam Wallace, Deborah Westmancoat, Jos ep h Whitmore, Frances Williams, Ben Zawalich and Adam Zoltowski.

This year printmaking, moving image and performance occupy much of the final selection as well as an interest in modes of production and materiality.

Certain artists explore themes linked to current affairs ( Marco Godoy , Melissa Kime, Milou van der Maaden ) , human behaviour (Simon Senn, Lucy Beech, Stacey Guthrie ) , language (Matt Copson, Alice Hartley , Imran Perretta ), desire ( Yi Dai, Katie Hayward, Racheal Crowther, Tajinder Dhami) and the body ( Bee Flowers, Yussef Hu, MKLK, Adam Wallace , Xiao-Yang Li).

Marco Godoy’s work ‘Claiming the Echo’ explores the aftermath of the financial crisis in Spain and depicts a choir singing choral arrangements of political protest slogans in Spanish.

Working with mixed media, Melissa Kime playfully alludes to the economic crisis with ‘ Technicolour Joseph and The Amazing City Bankers ' whilst Milou van der Maaden investigates the legacy of Dutch post - colonial activity in Africa in her film ‘From A Head To A Head’.

Simon Senn ’s films deal with human behaviour and patterns of interaction. His explorations of group dynamics and individual responses take place in contexts defined by the artist, including an artist’s talk, a friend’s bedroom and a South African housing project. Through his deliberately candid filming technique and other interventions Senn reveals and heightens existing tensions within a given social setting. His film‘ Just Let Go’ sets up the intriguing proposition of dealing with the current global financial crisis through the creation of filmed cathartic experiences that aim to release anxiety.

Lucy Beech’s unsettling film ‘Cannibals’ is centred around the act of eating and it isn’t clear to the viewer whether the footage is real or staged, heightening its ambiguity. Stacey Guthrie’s film ‘ The Splendid Life of Hildegard Ramsbottom ’ weaves wit and poetry with potent and comic results.

Matt Copson’s practice deals with language and the construction of narrative. Taking the form of installations, performances and discrete objects his works simultaneously draw heavily from contemporary British culture and more ancient forms of storytelling. Through the persona of the ‘fox’ and his relationship to others, a complex, often troubled worldview is created. ‘We’re All Very Disappointed’ by Alice Hartley is a large scale screen print which is inspired by the artist’s own internal voice and serves as a platform for thoughts and ideas that are never articulated.

Imran Perretta draws on his Bangladeshi heritage in his affecting work ‘Devotion’ which incorporates a prayer mat, newspaper clipping and tape recording.

Yi Dai’s works appear to be abstract in nature, but on closer inspection reveal that highly charged materials such as the artist’s own hair, broken mirror and stockings are also used in the process of making. This provocative and seductive materiality adds another layer of meaning and interpretation to the forms that the artist employs in this series of works.

Katie Hayward's body of work stems from her curiosity into individual desires. Her exquisite drawings and inflatable sculptures deal with the notio n of desired stature and her relationship to architecture, forming the basis for works that attempt to reach exaggerated and unrealistic heights.

Racheal Crowther ’s provocative installation ‘How 2 Dress’ is an assemblage of a photograph printed onto silk habotai with an office fan placed underneath. Over - head suspended grapes dipped in pink latex drip onto the floor , to explore ideas of desire and decay.

Tajinder Dhami explores and speculates on what constitutes an erotic dream for a computer in h is five minute video ‘ Electric Dream: Will Synthetic Intelligences Dream of Electric Sheep’.

Bee Flowers weaves art nouveau iconography into her delicate sculpture ‘Flow: B ody II’ whilst Yussef Hu ’s work ‘Ax’ is a durational performance work in which the artist juices oranges. Adam Wallace’s painting takes apart the anatomy in a collage of form and colour. MKLK ’s work ‘Man E ater’ is a hypnotic live performance of the artist wearing a costume made from VHS tape extracted from hard - core porn films.

Xiao - Yang Li is fascinated by representations of human and bestial qualities in antique art, particularly sculptural objects which embody a mix of human and animal forms from the Me sopotamian and Ancient Greek periods. Her paintings are an attempt to understand the power of myth and its relationship to the medium of paint. Using colour and form Li aims to convey a sense of the magical, and the power of painting to imbue both human a nd animal forms with mythical qualities.

Complementing the exhibition is a public programme of talks and live events that bring together differing viewpoints to discuss contemporary modes of production. The Friday Salons, a regular series in ICA programmi ng, provide a platform for professional artistic development to young artists and students. Panel discussions and artists talks accompany this, drawing on the issues raised in the exhibition as well as addressing broader themes around contemporary practice and culture.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British Art Schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consistently provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition.

Image: Charles Richardson, Rehearsal (2014), HD video, 12 minutes. Courtesy the artist.

Press contact:
Naomi Crowther Tel: 020 7766 1407 Email: naomi.crowther@ica.org.uk

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