17/1/2013
Sharon Kivland
Domo Baal, London
Reproductions II. Works include postcards of Rome turned into clumsy negatives; more carefully done drawings of underwear, photographs of belts or waists, bodies or fashion accessories, a knee-length skirt.
Domo Baal is delighted to present Sharon Kivland’s third solo exhibition
in the gallery. In 'Reproductions II' Sharon Kivland exhibits new works
from the collection, echoing her last exhibition, with a little deviation.
Works include postcards of Rome turned into clumsy negatives; more
carefully done drawings of underwear, copied from magazines of the 1950s,
immobile and fixed, removed from any supporting body; photographs of belts
or waists, bodies or fashion accessories (so difficult to tell sometimes);
a knee–length skirt, which appears both constraining and oddly liberating;
truncated bodies in attractive trousers and defining belts or in lovely
dresses (day and one evening); postcards of stars of the cinema, already
fading, embellished (the painted addition may be all that remains);
another Nana, ghostwritten this time, describing herself through the words
of others.
It is, one might say, a matter of structure, as well as one of
meticulous cataloguing or insistent representation. Material that has had
a life already is reorganised, yet the re–ordering leads to a certain
disorder, a somewhat paradoxical economy. It may be rather hard to
distinguish perversity from perversion, for example, in certain works
(re)presented here, wherein there is both malice and jouissance.
This exhibition will be accompanied by two essays written for Sharon
Kivland's new body of work, by Jan Campbell and Steve Pile. These will be
published in a two volume edition of 100 to be bound together, available
from the gallery.
Dr. Jan Campbell is a Reader in English Literature and
Psychoanalysis in the Department of English at the University of
Birmingham. She was also a member of the Cultural Studies Department at
Birmingham until its abrupt closure in 2002. Jan Campbell has also worked
clinically for thirteen years as a psychoanalyst, as well as writing
widely on psychoanalysis in relation to feminism, queer theory,
autobiography, social and cultural theory, literature, and film.
Her most
recent book is on the telepathic movement of a maternal form, which she
argues is the necessary transferential sublimation of the repressed
'Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature' is forthcoming
from Karnac in the Spring of 2013.Professor Steve Pile teaches Geography
in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He has published
on issues concerning place and the politics of identity.
He is author of
'Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life'
(2005) and 'The Body and The City: psychoanalysis, subjectivity and space'
(1996). His many collaborative projects include the forthcoming
collection, 'Psychoanalytic Geographies' (edited with Paul Kingsbury). He
is currently working on early Freudian psychoanalysis and geographies of
the body.
Opening: Friday 18 January 6–8pm
Domo Baal
3 John Street, London
Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12 to 6pm
Free Admission