Carey Young
dal 4/5/2004 al 6/6/2004
Segnalato da
4/5/2004
Carey Young
Index - the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
The artist has become recognised for her works across a variety of media which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Young's projects often centre on notions of language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations and questions for the viewer.
Index announces Carey Young's first solo exhibition in Sweden. Carey Young,
who is based in London, has become recognised for her works across a variety
of media which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and
public domains into the realm of the commercial. Young's projects often
centre on notions of language, training and performance, and take an
ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations
and questions for the viewer.
At Index, Young will show a variety of recent works. In the slide projection
sequence Lines Made by Walking (2003), Young, dressed in a suit, walks
backwards and forwards in the midst of a one-way crowd of commuters. Here
Young restages Richard Long's seminal piece, A Line Made by Walking,
transposing his act of 'drawing' a line into the ground by repeatedly
walking through a physical landscape, into to the context of the
contemporary globalised city in which her artistic act of 'drawing a line'
seems to mirror the daily journey of the city's workers to and from the
office. The artist's determination to move the crowd out of the way becomes
a deadpan parallel for heroic artistic 'struggle', whilst the artwork is
nevertheless immanent in the crowd as if everyone pictured might be engaged
in their own form of social sculpure.
Optimum Performance (2003) is a previously unexhibited video documentation
of a recent performance piece created by the artist for the Whitechapel
Gallery in London. Optimum Performance features an actor who delivers a
rousing motivational speech to the gallery audience as if they are group of
his own professional colleagues. The piece can be read simultaneously as a
functional tool designed to manipulate the abilities of the audience, and as
a subtle critique of the institutions and systems of the art world.
Carey Young (born 1970, UK/US citizen) graduated from the Royal College of
Art in 1997. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows at venues
including the Whitechapel Gallery (London), the ICA, (London), and the
Munich Kunstverein, and is currently a resident artist at IASPIS in
Stockholm. The first book on her work, 'Carey Young, Incorporated' was
published by Film & Video Umbrella in 2002. More information on
http://www.careyyoung.com.
Carey Young will have an artist talk at Index on May 12, 7 pm.
Opening Wednesday May 5, 5 - 8 pm
The exhibition is supported by IASPIS, British Council STockholm, AV-Huset
Ljud och Bildteknik Stockholm, System-Text och Ljus & AV-Teknik AB
Stockholm.
For further information and pressimages, please contact Index.
The Index' exhibition programme is put together by Andreas Gedin, Helena
Holmberg, Mats Stjernstedt and Niklas Östholm.
Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
S:t Paulsgatan 3, Box 151 52, 104 65 Stockholm
tel: +46 (0)8-640 94 92, +46 (0)8-640 60 69