Nor Corridor

Ben Cain, Sheena Macrae, Soledad Pinto, Andro Semeiko

2 July – 31 July 2010

Curated by Yu-Chen Wang / Basement Art Projects in association with Standpoint

Opening: 1 July 2010 6-9pm

Artist Talk: 24 July 2010 Saturday 4pm

‘Corridor’ comes from the Latin currere (current) meaning ‘to run’; meaning both passing in time and passing through to another place. Travelling through a corridor is temporal and displacing, as a passageway is neither open/public nor interior/private space. Movement is dominated by the architectural layout of the building and its isolation from the other spaces. The unknown leads the desire for finding the way out or way into somewhere, and also intensifies the expectation of waiting to be seen. While going through, the individual becomes disconnected from the rest of the world and the dialogue between space, time and self begins…

Ben Cain b.1975 Leeds. Lives and works in London and Zagreb.

Cain is primarily involved in the production of installations, vinyl records, performances and printed matter, which deal with the convergence of theatre and documentary information, with a particular interest in facilitating and highlighting the viewers’ role in the emergence of a subject. The work tends to be formed through interplay of saying and doing, of production and description; where specific outcomes remain unstable and illusive. Recent work has increasingly focussed on sight and speech in the process of developing work that oscillates between the visible and non-visible, the physical and the imagined. Ben Cain has been exhibiting internationally for over ten years.

Sheena Macrae b.1972 Canada. Lives and works in London.

Macrae works primarily in film, installation and wall-based work. She addresses and explores societies’ fascination with speed, entertainment, information and creating meaning through popular culture and film language. She graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University, Vancouver and a MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London. She has recently had a monograph exhibition at Musée d'Art Contemporain Val-de-Marne, Paris, and solo shows at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vzigalica, City Museum, Ljubljana, and shown at Nettie Horn, London, Beaux-arts de Paris and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Soledad Pinto b.1978 Temuco, Chile. Lives and works in London.

Pinto’s work recovers the hybrid atmosphere of "lost territories"- landscapes, memories, cityscapes and urban ruins- translating and restoring them in tension with the material boundaries of the exhibition space. Her translations (reterritorializations) are conceived as interplays between opposite poles and juxtapositions of different kind of spaces in a single place. They highlight the ambivalent, contingent, and transient nature of the limits that structure our daily experience. Pinto gained her MA from Wimbledon College of Art, (2007), and BA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2001). She has recently shown her work at 91mQ art project space, Berlin (2010); Praxis International Art, New York and Miami (2009) and Centro de Extensión Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile (2009). Awards include FONDART (Chile, 2009 and 2008), and Banco de Chile Award, XXIV National Art and Poetry Competition (Chile, 2002).

Andro Semeiko b.1975 Ozurgeti, Georgia. Lives and works in London.

Semeiko’s work presents everyday objects in ways in which their meaning and relation become a matter of open surreal speculation. His works refuse seriousness, reflecting and engendering playful relations in the world. He studied at Royal Academy of Arts London (2006) and Goldsmiths College (2001). He has exhibited in Prague Biennale (2009); Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2008); Fieldgate Gallery, London; Sotheby’s /RAS Auction, London (2007); Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2003); The Lowry, Manchester (2002); Camden Arts Centre and Sunderland Museum (2001). He has received Kunstanjer 2000, Prince Bernard Culture Prize (NL) and British Institution Prize 2004. As part of his Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship 2009-10, he has presented a solo show Unveiling together with an artist book Unveiling: Rocket MT2010 at Gymnasium Art Gallery in April-May 2010.

Further information: www.basementartprojects.org/norcorridorinfo@basementartprojects.org

Fiona MacDonald: 0207 739 4921 / standpointgallery@btconnect.com

Venue:   Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD

Gallery Open:  Wednesday – Saturday, 12-6pm

Tube:  Old Street, Exit 2 (Northern Line – Bank Branch)

Buses:  55, 67, 149, 242, 243

Web:  www.standpointlondon.co.uk

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