Group show
Group show
Curated by Charles Danby and I-MYU Projects
Abandoned Protocol brings together artists from Korea
and the UK through a primary discourse of photography
that includes video and touches upon performance.
Protocol offers a standard of behavior, setting rules
that govern syntax, and conventions that inform
communication. The artists in Abandoned Protocol
consider such codes of social exchange, turning to the
periphery of cultural convention to question the
social, political and economic implication of these
systems. The works move through social - psychological
- spaces, revealing in the poetical-uncanny of the
landscape social codes that disclose considerations of
environment and territory - terrains that exist on the
margins of inhabited spaces.
Ben Judd’s video work I Will Heal You (2007) draws on
an amalgamation of religious and quasi-religious
belief systems experienced and investigated by the
artist during a recent two-month residency in Cali,
Colombia. Judd created a movement that is
contradictory at every turn, questioning the channels
through which social codes are created, authenticated,
and come to stand as valid units of cultural currency.
The duality of Judd’s actual and fictitious movement
touches on a notion of discord that underpins the
exhibition. Also shown are a series of Judd's
stereoscopic photographs whose manufacture perpetuates
primary systems of illusion within the medium of
photography.
Seung Woo Back’s photographs, taken at Aiins World
theme park in Korea, mediate between a manufactured
world of miniature replica buildings and a real world
of lived-in apartment blocks, recasting the scale of
each so that their differences are all but
indiscernible. The opposing types of buildings stand
as parallels to social and economic discrepancies
between Korea and the West.
Hyung-Geun Park’s photographs of uninhabited and
familiar landscapes, ponds, graveyards, woodlands,
have an intensive level of detail that renders their
ordinariness uncanny, fantastical, and sinister.
Behaviour, etiquette and hostility engender the
collaborative work of Eloise Fornieles & Kate Hawkins.
Their performance realised for film, Mal Gusto (2007)
– a work first performed in Tel Aviv in 2005 - cuts
directly to the superficiality of social event as
played out through artworld encounter. The two
protagonists emerge from a crowd to encircle each
other with unbroken stares that create palpable
tension. As the matadorial encounter intensifies a
violent standoff of unspoken conflict unfolds, and red
wine spills…
Notes:
Seung Woo Back lives and works in Seoul and London and
graduated from Middlesex University in 2005.
Hyung-Geun Park lives and works in Seoul and graduated
from Goldsmiths in 2006, recent exhibitions include a
solo show at New Art Gallery Walsall, 2006. Ben Judd
lives and works in London, he graduated from
Goldsmiths in 1997, and was recently awarded an
International Residency Programme by Gasworks. Eloise
Fornieles and Kate Hawkins both graduated from the
Slade in 2006 and began collaborating immediately
afterwards. They both live and work in London; Mal
Gusto (2007) was filmed from a performance that took
place in End of the Peer, Paradise Row, London (2nd
August/2007) having originally been conceived and
performed as part of, Goods to Declare /
MFA International, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006.
A 24 page catalogue will be available with texts by,
Andrew Hunt, Keum-Hyun Han, Ian Jeffery and Skye
Sherwin.
Image: Ben Judd
Private view 7th September, 6-9pm
Ritter/Zamet
2 Bear Gardens - London
Tuesday – Saturday 10am-6pm
Free admission