Ghosting
dal 24/11/2005 al 7/1/2006
Segnalato da
24/11/2005
Ghosting
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
The series of newly commissioned works explore themes of archive, memory and ethnography through three visually and orally rich moving image installations. Harold Offeh presents the multi-media installation 'Being Mammy'. Ansuman Biswas shows 'Season', a four-screen installation that examines memory. Erika Tan's 'Persistent Visions' is a three-screen installation that questions the nature of archive collections.
Harold Offeh, Ansuman Biswas and Erika Tan
Ghosting is a series of newly commissioned works by Ansuman Biswas, Harold Offeh and Erika Tan, who explore themes of archive, memory and ethnography through three visually and orally rich moving image installations.
Harold Offeh's Being Mammy is an attempt to explore the world of the 'Mammy' caricature and evoke the tragedy of the typecast actor doomed to recreate and replay the same role. Offeh has examined the life and career of actress Hattie McDaniel, who famously won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in Gone With the Wind. This multi-media installation combines several performance video works contextualised by a series of objects.
Ansuman Biswas' Season is a four-screen installation that examines memory, identity, ghosts, rhythm and the roots of culture, partly refracted through an autobiographical lens. Biswas has constructed a pictorial and musical
essay on journeying, death and the seasonal cycles. The work combines a colourful video of a ten-day-long Hindu funeral, with old, black and white, grainy pictures of Devon life.
Erika Tan¹s Persistent Visions is a three-screen installation that questions the nature, status and classification of archive collections within the empire and commonwealth story at the Museum in Bristol. By interrogating the
vaults of stored material culture Tan illuminates hidden meanings and messages, unearthing personal and subjective histories occluded by the grander structures of empire.
Win Mammy for a day!
Visitors to the opening of 'Ghosting' will be given the opportunity to enter a prize draw. The winner will have Mammy for a day when she will cook, clean and dispense some homespun, commonsense advice on a range of topics. The day will be filmed and shown as part of the 'Ghosting' exhibition. In addition the winner will receive a copy of the video.
Mammy's Fried Chicken
During the opening Mammy will also be serving her freshly made Special Fried Chicken. Visitors are welcome to chat to Mammy and taste samples.
Ghosting is a Picture This exhibition that has received financial support from Arts Council England.
Image: Harold Offeh
Opening: November 25, 7-9 pm
Chapter Gallery
Market Road - Cardiff CF5 1QE.
Hours: : Tuesday-Sunday 11am-8pm and Monday 11am-5pm