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Alida Sayer, Signature IV (2016), image © Philip Sayer, Korean hanji paper and ink
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Alida Sayer, Spine I (2016) image © Philip Sayer, cast bronze and mixed media
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Detail of Alida Sayer, Spine VII (2016) image © Philip Sayer, cast aluminium
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Image by Yoo Kwang-Soo, from A Weaving Story, a book found by the artist at Andong Culture & Art Centre, April 2015
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Alida Sayer, Lexicon I (2016) © Alida Sayer, with technical instruction by Maybelle Peter
Exhibition
Alida Sayer, Lexicon
17 Feb 2016 – 30 Mar 2016
Event times
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 23 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PB
- London
- EC2A 3PB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus numbers 55, 243, 26 and 35 also stop nearby.
- Old Street Underground and Shoreditch and Hoxton Overground stations are a short walk away.
In Lexicon, Sayer extends an ongoing investigation into methods of apprehending intangible structures of meaning and ways in which the formations and traces of human experience become translated, impressed into and suspended within matter and communicable forms.
About
A sequence of glyph-like forms reverberates throughout Alida Sayer’s second solo exhibition at Marsden Woo Gallery. Extracts from the vocabulary of an unknown language, perhaps, or moments of human thought and activity crystallized into material fragments?
In Lexicon, Sayer extends an ongoing investigation into methods of apprehending intangible structures of meaning and ways in which the formations and traces of human experience become translated, impressed into and suspended within matter and communicable forms. As she migrates the undulations and distinctively organic characteristics of traditional Korean hanji paper through a series of transformative processes, she explores the syneasthetic qualities of the cast and the scan as well as the linguistic qualities of rhythmically recurring forms.
The exhibition draws upon an immersive experience of contemporary South Korean culture during a research residency in spring 2015, as well as a recent encounter with the archeological sites at Pompeii and Herculaneum, in order to consider ideas surrounding the contemporary relationship to historic ritual.
Image by Yoo Kwang-Soo, from A Weaving Story, a book found by the arist at Andong Culture & Art Center, South Korea, April 2015
ALIDA SAYER graduated from The Royal College of Art with an MA Sculpture in 2014 and previously studied Architecture and Visual Communication Design at Glasgow School of Art to 2009. As well as exhibiting in solo, group and touring shows in the UK, USA and South Korea, she has also worked on a broad range of collaborative, curatorial and production projects and given lectures and seminars to both public and Higher Education audiences nationally and internationally. Her work is featured in numerous books and printed publications worldwide and she has both received and been shortlisted for several awards, including the D&AD Best New Blood Award (winner, 2009) and the Royal College of Art Varley Award (winner, 2013).
In Spring 2015, Sayer undertook a three-month research residency at INTERVIEWS Studio in Andong, South Korea, which culminated in her first international solo exhibition, Skeins of Now, at Gallery Sagakhyung, Seoul (June 2015). She was also selected as a 2015-16 Associate Maker at Firstsite, Colchester, through which she received an artist development bursary to fund a research visit to Venice and Pompeii (October 2015) and a production residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire (November to December 2015). Examples of Sayer’s work are currently touring venues across the USA into 2016 as part of the award-winning group exhibition Stereo Type, which began at Boston Society of Architects in September 2014.
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