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2/12/2004

D'Sehnsucht

VTO, London

A project by Antonia Low and Martine Feipel
Curated by Morgane Follett and Bertha Diaz

D'Sehnsucht is an intimate dialogue between two artists working in London exploring each other¹s memories of their hometowns in Germany and Luxemburg. Working in the VTO Gallery, London, Antonia Low and Martine Feipel will communicate only through delivered letters which will be sealed and posted through a slip in the separating wall of their own isolated working spaces. The artists will translate and interpret the others writing through drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. The idea is to interpret and communicate each others longing.

Each statement on the artist¹s hometown opens up another view on London in the same way that being in London transforms the objects and memories of their past. Memories become distorted and integrated with the present as the artists move through time creating new points of view of the past and of the present. By working on what is communicated to one another, the artists try to understand each other¹s reality.

Throughout this secluded exploration of each others thoughts, the private memory of each artist will be translated into a public exhibition through digital technology. D¹Sehnsucht will take place on three separate platforms simultaneously ­the physical gallery space, the television platform and the internet forum. Two web cams will record the artists working which will be broadcast across Europe via Satellite television to the very towns they are interpreting through their work. The artists themselves remain isolated within their workspace, ignorant about what is going on beyond their space. The virtual platforms contrast with the artists intimate and traditional methods of communication which exist in real time as opposed to the television and internet which question and confuse these issues of time, place, reality, memory, private and public which are integral to the project.

Inside the gallery, a ŒMedia Space¹ will function as a meeting point of both the virtual and real spaces explored within the project. Pre-recorded and live projections will show the artists working in the gallery and a laptop will allow visitors to select broadcasts of the artists working on previous days. An internet connection will enable visitors to post messages on an internet forum and view comments from around the world.

3 December 2004 ­ 9 January 2005
PV: Tue 14 December 6 ­ 10 pm

With the kind support of FONDS CULTUREL NATIONAL DU LUXEMBOURG

For more information and images please contact
Eva on 07976 221 520 or Jari on 07766 918992
Open: Friday to Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment

Private View: 14.12.04 6-10pm VTO, 96 Teesdale Street, London, E2 Contact: 07782 390 754

View the artists working on the project at VTO: 3.12.04 ­ 12.12.04 Fri-Sun 12-6pm

View the resulting work from the project at VTO: 15.12.04 - 9.01.05 Fri-Sun 12-6pm

Watch the artists' everyday during their project on Open Access ­Sky 687

Listen to the artists in conversation and visit the chat forum http://www.dsehnsucht.dtdns.net/

VTO 96 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU Tel: 020 7729 5629

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