Exhibitions 12 August- 4 September, 2005

Fetishism - Identity - Otherness

Five new exhibitions open at Linden 6pm Thursday 11 August 2005

Up She Goes, in gallery 1, is a large scale video projection by Louise Paramor featuring a life size image of a girl, leaning over a fancy sports car, to explore the way men fetishise 'objects' in order to dream their dreams of power, money and sexual fulfilment. This installation came about as a result of a residency at Stichting Duende Aktiviteiten, Rotterdam.

Movement Studies by Chris Bell is an installation of black glass and steel, crystalline prisms that adhere to the architectural fixtures in gallery 2 like spores, bacteria or barnacles. The antique and biological connotations and reflective effects create a psychologically strange and inspiring space.

Kristina Tsoulis-Reay's installation of painting, drawing, patchwork and hand-sewn human figures, in gallery 3, deals with themes of childhood and family history. The Living Room portrays the domestic living space as a vestige of personal and spiritual interactivity between the living and the dead.

The influence of consumerism and celebrity on the construction of personal and collective identity is the theme behind No Place Like Home, Richard Ellard's, exhibition of digital prints and transfers in gallery 4.

Donkey by Olivia Dowling, is a performance piece that takes a look at the 'otherness' of the artist. Each day the artist, dressed in a costume made from painted canvas will stand for hours in gallery 5, bent in the stance of a donkey, representing the lengths an artist will go to for acceptance within the art world.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 4 September 2005

 

 

 


image: Louise Paramor