Two exhibitions
dal 7/5/2002 al 1/6/2002
Segnalato da
7/5/2002
Two exhibitions
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Rosemary Laing, 'Bulletproofglass'. Rosemary Laing's utterly individual images remain in collective memory as ciphers for what it is like to be alive in the opening years of the 21st century. Slide Show Land: a series of installations by Elvis Richardson. Her projects investigative in nature, use found objects as raw materials to reveal, classify and map a collective memory.
ROSEMARY LAING
bulletproofglass
Rosemary Laing's utterly individual images remain in collective memory
as ciphers for what it is like to be alive in the opening years of the 21st
century.
It's a vision of a mediated world that exists only as transmission:
denatured airfields with jet planes slathered into condensed groundfog;
forest landscapes frozen into a hailstorm of pixels;
synthetic carpets placed in raw bluestone quarries like alien pods;
stalling engines and brides falling out of the sky.
In a vocabulary that lurches between postmodern circumlocution
and the swooning theatrical eloquence of St Theresa,
the current show is ignited by a violent act.
(Bring on the javelin of gold with the iron tip, O Seraphim!)
An ungrounded bride floats suspended, or flies (if the dead can fly),
or falls euphorically after being hit by some high velocity weapon.
The impact sends pigeons fluttering like tossed gravel.
The work curries favour with our gorgeous social romance with weddings,
only to blow those pieties away.
These unresolvable results are Laing's terrain:
an anxious meltdown of Paul Virilio and Francesco Goya
punched up in into cinematic affectation in the photographic print.
Extracted from the catalogue essay by George Alexander
Image: Rosemary Laing, groundspeed #1, 2001
c type photograph
110 x 229 cm
OPENING WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 6-8pm
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ROOM 35
Elvis Richardson
Slide Show Land
Slide Show Land is a series of installations by Elvis Richardson.
Her projects investigative in nature, use found objects as raw materials
to reveal,
classify and map a collective memory.
The artist through various Internet auction has purchased over 30,000 slides,
advertised as 'travel and family slides' sites.
Dated from 1940 - 1995 these slides impart a recent history already
jettisoned and redundant,
of local and world travel, weddings, Christmas and other family occasions,
souvenir slides from monuments and cities, and snapshots of everyday life.
Narratives are created through reading the images and sequence and further
the viewer
into an investigative process of piecing together a possible story or
identity based on a 'true story'.
Slide Show Land is for the obsessive and voyeur as well as the nostalgic
and lost.
Elvis Richardson is the recipient of the prestigious Samstag Scholarship
and has recently graduated
from the MFA program at Columbia University New York City.
Opening Wednesday 8 May 6 - 8pm
For further information please contact
Gitte Weise Gallery 56 Sutherland Street Paddington NSW 2021 Australia
tel/fax + 61 2 9360 2659