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g39: Rebecca Spooner: The White Stag | Experimentica at g39: Andrea Williams/ Adele Vye - 3 Oct 2008 to 1 Nov 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Rebecca Spooner: The White Stag
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Rebecca Spooner: The White Stag g39 presents a new body of work by Rebecca Spooner that comprises three installations using 16mm film, photography and found objects. Engaging with a stag, a hawk and a hare, she explores the mythology of The Huntress whose pagan character reveals a depth of female intuition, intent, vulnerability and power. In contemporary life, our direct contact with the natural world is fractured and mediated. The rural landscape has been shaped, we roam through conserved parks as interlopers in a tamed wilderness that is no longer our home but our leisure. Rebecca Spooner�s work reconnects the tamed viewer to a feral other. In her installations the distance between the urban and the rural, between the present day and the indistinct history of myths and fables has collapsed. Rather than using the featured animals to engage us on an Aesop-style anthropomorphic level � which depends on received wisdoms or literary codes � Rebecca�s rich installations use a process of association by building a rich and layered understanding of the natural world and our place within it. She uses the pathetic fallacy that ascribes the natural world with human capabilities, sensations, and emotions: moments when nature acts �in sympathy� with human desires or emotions. It was a favorite of Romantic writers � in moments of sorrow, it rains; in moments of anguish the weather is tempestuous; animals mirror their human counterparts. This pathetic fallacy can use the qualities of animals to convey unconscious desires and sensual metaphors more effectively than a prosaic account of events might do. Rebecca�s practice focuses on Romantic themes of nature, offering a glorification of emotional experience that spans the mortal and the divine. Rebecca would like to thank: Richard Bevan, Virginia Head, Jackie Chettur and Hugh Fowler. Experimentica at g39 Andrea Williams/ Adele Vye Wednesday 15th Oct - Saturday 18th October, 11am-5.30pm NB the gallery will close at 4pm on Saturday 18th Alongside Rebecca Spooner's exhibition in the main gallery, g39 is pleased to present the work of Adele Vye and Andrea Williams as part of Experimentica 2008. In the cellar space Andrea Williams presents Car an audio visual installation. The cocoon of a car provides space for the real and imagined to converge, as the sounds of traffic and urbanised nature form a kind of tonal music with the hum of the engine. Presented in surround sound the piece has a sense of urban detachment, a reminder of the passivity of viewing from vehicles.Public meets private, technology meets nature in this new video installation. In contrast, Adele Vye moves into G39 with two monolithic cupboards used as makeshift stages, sleeping spaces and wardobes. She arrives with a host of �potential beings� - pinned cloth marionettes - that become part of this nighttime scenario. Expect metamorphosis, metaphor and a touch of tragicomedy as Vye attempts to conjure light, wood and fabric, matter and anti-matter, consciousness and unconsciousness all in the presence of the ever shifting nocturnal traffic of the city at drink and play. The performance is viewed from the street and will start at 7pm Saturday 18th October and run into the night. It can also be seen by webcam on: www.ustream.tv/channel/night-shift Documentation of the night�s action will be on display on Sunday 19th October. |
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