Suky Best
dal 26/10/2005 al 18/12/2005
Segnalato da
26/10/2005
Suky Best
Pump House Gallery, London
The Return of the Native. A series of short digital animations and prints that 'reintroduce' formerly indigenous wildlife to the contemporary landscape of the East Anglian Fenland, London and the South East.
The Return of the Native
Pump House Gallery is pleased to present The Return of the Native by artist
Suky Best, a series of short digital animations and prints that
'reintroduce' formerly indigenous wildlife to the contemporary landscape of
the East Anglian Fenland, London and the South East.
Exhibited for the first
time in London, Best extends the work that began in the Fens with a body of
newly commissioned work using the landscape of London and Battersea Park to
highlight the current decline of biodiversity in urban areas.
To create her work Best finds museum specimens of extinct or endangered
species such as the Bearded Tit and Large Copper Butterfly. These are then
recorded and meticulously reanimated before being reintegrated digitally
into an appropriate habitat. Best's animations and prints possess an awkward
and sad beauty. The slightly studied and stylised nature of each
composition, in which the respective elements somehow don't quite fit
together, elicit a haunting and disquieting sense of loss. This feeling is
magnified by the mode of display, in which each of Best's delicate
animations are shown on small screens.
Suky Best studied photography at the Royal College of Art and has exhibited
extensively nationally and internationally. Shows include a recent
collaboration with Rory Hamilton, Wild West at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary
Art 2005, Trace edition at Hirschl Contemporary Art, London 2004, East
International 2003, Norwich Gallery, Exhumed The Museum of Garden History,
London 2003 and Recent Work at Danielle Arnaud 2002.
A full colour publication published by Film and Video Umbrella is available
to accompany the exhibition. ISBN 1 90427 013 1.
For press review copies and further information about the book please
contact Lindsay Evans: lindsay@fvu.co.uk
The Return of the Native was originally commissioned as part of Silicon Fen,
a collaboration between Norwich School of Art and Design and Film and Video
Umbrella in association with BCA Gallery, Bedford, Kings Lynn Art Centre,
Peterborough Digital Arts, and Babylon Gallery, Ely. Supported by the
regional arts lottery programme of Arts Council England - East.
Private view: Thursday 27 October 6 -8pm
Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park - London
Opening Times: Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 11am - 5pm, Friday and
Saturday 11am - 4pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Admission free.