ElsewhereClare Gasson, Liane Lang, Fiona MacDonald20 May - 20 June 2005
Elsewhere presented new work by three artists – Clare Gasson, Liane Lang and Fiona MacDonald. It was a dialogue in different media exploring the scission and relation between the real and fake in the creation of individual experience – a personal ‘other place’. All three artists construct worlds at the fringes of nature and artifice. The work manipulates the viewer in ways that are made open, revealing the mechanics behind the seduction, while still able to seduce.
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'Entre chien et loup' Clare Gasson
Clare Gasson makes narrative sound installations. Her voice is hypnotic. Through the simplest of means – telling a story, she achieves the oneiric doubling effect of having one inhabit two realities simultaneously; neither under one’s control. She employs the language of film – camera angles, suggested shots and lighting, alternative scenarios, as if she were proposing a film to the board at MGM, but at the same time wraps us in her meta-fictional space. Clare is making a new piece to inhabit a disused lift space within the gallery, blending the sculptural with the aural. Clare completed her MA at Goldsmiths in 2004 and has been showing widely in Europe and the UK since.
'Entre chien et loup' (detail)
Liane Lang works with photography and video, using prosthetics and settings to suggest and subvert an alluring and unsettling narrative. Her time-lapse work collapses hours into minutes, allowing the indiscernible to be made visible. In her stereoscopic images the viewer oscillates between the examination of an image and of binocular vision itself. In her photographic work the image moves between narrative and still-life in a way which forces a close examination of surface textures and visual clues. The works have an inbuilt delay, unfolding their construction and relations gradually. Liane is currently a student at the R A Schools. She has shown with PS1 in New York and Saatchi in London, and across Europe.
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Fiona MacDonald Inland II 2005
Fiona MacDonald paints in acrylic and oil on canvas, incorporating sculptural elements that extend and subvert the autonomy of painting. She investigates borderline spaces – between the natural and artificial, between order and wilderness. Her hybrid paintings are experimental in their approach to surface, texture, colour and mark, and jumble and orchestrate recognisable species into incongruous couplings and interactions - tropical palms alongside wild strawberries and weeds. She undermines the expected hierarchy of cultivation in nature and in painting – her diverse use of materials offering no favour to the rare and illustrious over the vernacular. Fiona had a solo show at Vertigo in 2004.
Fiona MacDonald Island Unit 2005
Elsewhere was curated by Fiona MacDonald. The show was accompanied by a book produced by the artists, with an essay by Peg Rawes. To obtain a copy please contact the gallery.
Links Fiona MacDonald - www.fionamacdonald.co.uk Liane Lang - www.lianelang.com
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