CURATORIAL PROJECTS ARCHIVE / THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2006THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE / 22 September - 04 November
Thursday - Sunday 11am - 6pmThe Nunnery, 183 Bow Road, London
Artists:
Rebecca Birch, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Alex Hudson, Rob Smith
-Rebecca Birch presents Noise 2006 an eighteen channel video installation. The work charts the movements of often the smallest of creatures, re-choreographing their actions and interventionswithin their natural habitat leaving them caught both by the frame of the camera and trapped withthe physical constraint of the TV monitor. Compiled over two years, multiple, stacked TVmonitors draw reference to early 70’s experiments into video as medium of both performance and surveillance whilst creating an extensive virtual landscape in which the movements of animals aremimicked and sublimated by those of other animals on other screens around them. Exploring theanthropological, synthetic and digitised, Birch’s work both re-affirms and refutes conventions ofthe landscape, liberally recasting natural orders leaving ants and lizards as likely to climb and forage on screens high above the ground as to crawl on screens close to the floor. Rebecca Birch has recently shown at Node, London (2006) and East International (2006), she will graduatefrom the Slade School of Fine Art (MA) in 2007.Matthew Lutz-Kinoy presents Practicing Freemovement in the Shadow of the Staircase: Refininga Collection of Objects 2006 which includes a series of five new and recent video works (2005-2006) presented alongside a selection of the objects / props that appear in them. Cast as thesubject of his work, isolated and constrained by the camera lens, the artist repeatedly attempts to evade the constructed environment that ultimately is of his own making. Punctuated with offbeatsound and colour, Matthew’s manipulation of low-fi technologies, bound by fashion, magazinesand music, is extensive and inventive. Tapping into culture through drawing, video andperformance Matthew maps out a lucid and fantastical landscape that remains as playful as it does vivid. Matthew will graduate from Cooper Union, New York in 2007. He is currently living andworking in Berlin, showing work at A+B in Berlin with D-L Alvarez and is represented by YukikoKawase Gallery, Paris. This is the first time Matthew’s work has been shown in the UK.Alex Hudson presents a series of four new paintings, Dammed 2006, Last Stand 2006, Fall 2006 and Missing 2006. Mixing temporal and earthy hues Alex engages directly with the expansivelandscape of the outdoors. Distorting the ‘supposed’ social orders both of the urban environmentand of the countryside, Alex’s paintings inhabit an occasional wilderness where boundaries are blurred and the possibility for nefarious acts to occur is increased. Owing as much to ruin as toromance the paintings fuse B-movie horror with news stories, magazine cuttings and formalreferences to old masters. Exploring the margins of the landscape, often veiled beneath nature’scanopy and located beyond the lens of the closed circuit television camera, the works are disrupted by objects left or lost, chanced-upon and found, and are populated by figures dislocatedand outcast. Alex Hudson graduated from Kingston University in 2000, and has exhibited atvenues including Artsway and the Study Gallery. He will be undertaking an MA in painting atWimbledon in 2006-7, and is a founder member of the artist led group Fridge.Rob Smith presents a new audio controlled video installation, Kite Sound 2006. Taking themechanism of a kite, as an intermediary between the physicality of the earth and the transientforces of the sky the vibrations that travel through its chord are transformed into a robust andabstract soundtrack. This audio is transposed back into the work and is used to generate the frame-rate of the still image of the kite flying in the sky, inversely questioning the connection ofperformance and site to the technology of new media artwork. The stop frame image, animation,of the kite lurching erratically in the sky evokes a filmic reference to the menacing-sense ofHitchcock’s film The Birds. Projected across the width of the gallery it draws the gaze of the viewer skyward enticing an obtuse sense of occupied landscape. Rob Smith graduated from theRoyal Academy Schools in 2002. He has shown with Keith Talent and has been represented atZoo Art Fair. He recently exhibited at the Royal Academy Schools Gallery with Cornelia Parker,and will be showing extensively through 2007-8.
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Image: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
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