Erin Shirreff Work from her oeuvre. “…Erin Shirreff … among them—are addressing (or redressing) the issues attendant on becoming familiar with an artwork through its photo- graphic reproduction.6 Most of them have a studio-based practice that involves more than one medium—some are not even primarily photographers—but thinking about photography is central to what they do. […]
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Dan Holdsworth
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Dan Holdsworth Work from Transmission: New Remote Earth Views. “In Dan Holdsworth’s latest series Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, he appropriates topographical data to document the ideologically and politically loaded spaces of the American West in an entirely new way. In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City and […]
Yuri Pattison
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Yuri Pattison Work from focal-plane “Son Gallery are pleased to present Yuri Pattison’s solo exhibition ‘focal-plane’. In the installation, traditional museum vitrines are used as a display area for screens playing video material. This includes found video from nuclear surveys, carried out in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake in 2011, a series of shots […]
Lotte Geeven
Monday, 24 September 2012
Lotte Geeven Work from her oeuvre. “Throughout her work Geeven reveals splintered structures, reducing them to lines. Her city is a subway map and her mountain is a stripped vista. Working in multiple dimensions, she reveals a private and whimsical world hidden around the city, creating a non-existent space so that we can partake in […]
Trisha Donnelly
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Trisha Donnelly Work from her oeuvre. “..video, sound, photographs, drawings, and performance, Trisha Donnelly explores the power of the human mind to will ideas into existence. At the same time, her work acknowledges the limits of language in any guise to fully contain our ideas and thoughts. In Night Is Coming the title words pulse in and […]
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson Work from Volumes for Sound. “Throughout much of our practice we have sought to give shape and physicality to the immaterial. Many of the ideas surrounding these transformations are inspired by the processes used to record, playback and encounter sounds. This project focusses on nested forms, sculptural works that […]
Aude Pariset
Friday, 21 September 2012
Aude Pariset Work from her oeuvre. “Through diverse means, Pariset’s current body of work conceptually engages notions of projection and “exoticism”, and its relation to “the ability to conceive otherwise” as described by ethnographer and poet Victor Segalen in his Essay on Exoticism. Segalen’s notes suggest a definition of selfhood formed in connection to the constantly […]
Petrit Halilaj
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Petrit Halijaj Work from Kostërrc (CH). “Kostërrc (CH), 2011 consists of a hole (600 x 400 x 230 cm high) made in the Kostërrc hill in Kosovo. This hill is property of the Halilaj family and the original location of the house where the artist was born. The soil taken from the hole is transported […]
Bea Fremderman
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Bea Fremderman Work from S,M,L.XL “The assemblages in S,M,L,XL can be understood as registers of information, composed of outmoded materials archetypal to American corporate office design. The recuperation of such standard materials subverts use value in a form of resistance. Much like the bureaucratic condition of office environments, the valid structural organization of things remains enigmatic and […]