Rosemary Laing
dal 13/12/2007 al 25/1/2008
Segnalato da
13/12/2007
Rosemary Laing
Filiale Berlin / Galerie Conrads, Berlin
Laing's latest project begins with the effect of weather upon the landscape and its inhabitants, but in specific locations in which the past has actively shaped and informed the present. In this series of large scale colour photographs is an analogy which links the effects of climate, and climate change, on landscape and the human being with the effects of political and social climates.
In the new series of large scale colour photographs by the Australian
artist Rosemary Laing is an analogy which links the effects of climate, and climate
change, on landscape and human being with the effects of political and social
'climates'.
On a formal level the series "weather" is a synthesis of the elements that have
formed Laing's artistic practice, bringing together the performative, documentary
and object intervention strands. The first part with 6 motifs was completed in
august 2006. Weather #5, (c-print, 124 x 168,5 cm, ed. 8) shows an isolated female
figure against a bluish skylike background. She is caught mid air in a maelstrom of
wind. Buffeted by the elements she seems to be moving through time as much as
through space. This image is one from the component of performative photographs in
which Laing has staged the effects of extreme weather conditions upon a performer.
These images provide a poetic counterpoint to the landscape photographs, as the
human presence is made palpable, but it is one that is suspended in a vortex of
influence (climatic or events) over which she cannot exert individual agency.
These photographes continue Laing's interest in physics and movement as both
physical fact and symbolic metaphor. As with Laing's previous series, these images
are visually arresting embodiments of a skein of social, political and cultural
references, charted through particular places and histories.
Filiale Berlin / Galerie Conrads
Brunnenstrasse 188-190 - Berlin
Free admission