Exhibition

MEET PAMELA

1 Aug 2009 – 4 Sep 2009

Event times

Wed - Fri 10 - 5pm

Cost of entry

Free

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The John Jones Project Space

London, United Kingdom

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  • 1 min from Finsbury Park tube
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‘MEET PAMELA' brings together four artists who have independently developed a perspective on the act of making, elevating it from a mode of production to assume a place within the subject matter of their work. The show is a space for reflection on the possibilities of art production within the dialogue of an individual practice, or in response to external systems and processes. The title of the show is a reference to Francois Truffaut's ‘La Nuit Americaine,' 1973, which tells the story of the making of the film ‘Meet Pamela', where the drama shifts between the narrative of the film in production and the techniques and processes of film making itself. BUCKERIDGE installs sound into filmic or architectural spaces, using the spoken word, sound effects and video to explore the modes and conventions of familiar cultural constructs such as a primetime TV drama, a laboratory experiment or the staging of an opera. She is concerned with reconfiguring the relationship between form, content and the act of making, investigating hidden structures and processes of production as potential sites for performance and alternative narratives. BUCKLEY creates immersive multi screen installations that use the medium of film projection sculpturally. Semi-performative studio activities are juxtaposed with real life events, exploring and blurring points of separation and overlap. Buckley combines the devices of kinetic sculptural installation and video projection. Dealing with structure and materials, both physically, with the tangible components of the work, as well as virtually within the films, her installations are concerned with demystifying process and revealing systems of production. MORRISON uses painting and sculptural objects to explore the resemblance of art making to the exercise of belief. By reflecting particularly on the tension between creative exuberance and hardcore cynicism necessary to her own practice, Morrison refers to paint in her work as an analogy for an artist seduced by their own creativity — unable to separate good work from possible egotism. Each work offers a self consciously expressive fervour in the form of a contemporary art confessional. STEPHENS explores shifting patterns of meaning and potential for narrative in the grouping and regrouping of found, man-made and natural objects through sculptural assemblage. Pared-down to a formal minimalism, architectonic structures mimic the surrounding architecture forming an interplay of seduction and control whilst curious unions of disparate elements offer a hybrid of surreal and poetic associations often presented as one sculpture.

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