28/3/2000
Where Did You Find Me?
incubator, London
Where Did You Find Me? brings together six artists from two different
countries, who interrogate ideas of place and identity through diverse
photographic based practices drawing on the viewer's own sense of location
and scale.
Presenting ourselves to the world is a complicated business. How much do we
reveal ? How much do we keep to ourselves ? Implicit in how we perceive
ourselves is a conception of where we belong and what constitutes our home.
Where Did You Find Me? locates these issues in the domestic space of
incubator.
A long expanse of wall on one side of the narrow entrance corridor is
filled with Martyn Simpson's magnified photographic cut-outs. Taken from
the very fabric of domestic space, these delicate networks are blown up
details of net curtains. Enlarged, these familiar markers of home become
almost overpowering. Bengt Olof Johansson further makes us aware of how we
relate to the space around us, as we enter the main space of the gallery.
Carefully scaled to the dimensions of incubator, Johansson's large image is
composed from A4 sized mylar sheets. Together these fragile papers build up
a strong bodily presence to reveal a portrait of a Buddhist priest.
Anna Brag's video 'W' reveals the intimacies of human interaction within a
domestic space. In a suit made for two, a couple sit down for dinner. This
becomes an experience that is wholly dependent on each other's actions as
the pair negotiate becoming one through their clothes. Clifton Steinberg's
series of photographs focus on the presentation of individuals to others:
close cropped portraits depict faces heavily covered in make-up. Rather
than becoming intimate portraits, these faces painted for the public realm
reveal how different individuals project their identities through
appearance.
In Shizuka Yokomizo's portraits we learn about her subjects not just from
how they look, but also from how they make their mark on their own domain.
Her on-going 'Stranger' series is shot in different cities where Yokomizo
enters into an agreement to photograph individuals gazing out from their
own homes. The viewer's gaze is returned by that of the subject in their
own domestic realm. In this peculiar reversal of voyeurism, we feel
interrogated by the image we are looking at. Like Yokomizo, Per Huttner's
images are from an on-going series in which he visits many different
locations. These self-portraits show Huttner as a solitary individual
making his way through public spaces. Dressed in modern sportswear, he is
depicted jogging through both urban and remote landscapes.. Huttner's very
difference from his environment and from the people around him reflects the
social interactions that make up everyday life.
For further information and press images please contact Lisa Le Feuvre
telephone 020 7250 1173 or 020 7771 2130
incubator
1 Betterton House
17-29 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BT
020 7692 9200
http://www.incubator.org.uk
jstrand@incubator.org.uk
private view 28 March 2000 6.00-9.00pm
open 29 March-29 April 2000
Friday and Saturday 12.00-6.00pm and by
A catalogue with texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Lisa Le Feuvre and Andrew Renton
will be available from May
Where Did You Find Me? will tour to the James Hockey Gallery from 8 May to
28 June 2000
This exhibition has been supported by the Arts Council of England, Camden
Arts Services and IASPIS