Charlotte Prodger, 8004 - 8019

About

In her largest solo show to date, 8004 - 8019, she presents a new body of sculptural objects balanced by the feature length Stoneymollan Trail – Prodger’s first single channel video.

8004 - 8019 builds upon Prodger’s autographical impulse for listing, incremental sequencing and the mapping of co-ordinates. The grid is an ever-present motif in her practice, where rectilinear pattern is used as a formal constraint for subjective narrative content that is often messy and slippery, shifting around in time and place.

Moving between and blending the native aspect ratios of her mixed sources, Stoneymollan Trail comprises material from multiple formats: a personal archive of deteriorating miniDV tapes; high definition camera footage; iPhone videos; screenprinted graphic forms and recorded voice over.Stoneymollan Trail uses the geometry of the 16:9 (wide-screen) and 4:3 (standard) aspect ratios as a way of bringing the spatial concerns of her former multi-monitor installations into the linear constraints of the single screen. Here Prodger accentuates the often imperceptible physical presence of the pixel in our daily lives. The physicality of the screen is brought into focus as a measure and mediation of subjectivity. Stoneymollan Trailconsiders screens both as objects in the world (monitors, windows, folding screens), layered internal rectangles within the video, and as framing devices through which culture and reality are shaped. Landscape is a recurring motif throughout this video, which traces a recent history of the medium of video as well as the artist’s personal history.  

The sculptural objects made for Spike Island see Prodger using vertical and horizontal pictoral planes to consider screens as various ways of punctuating architectural space; blocking, dividing and revealing as the viewer navigates their way through the galleries. As Stoneymollan Trail uses the intimate physical materiality of video to frame autobiographical content, Prodger’s new sculptural objects draw upon industrial materials and processes (aluminium, haulage tarpaulins, Perspex, powdercoating, RAL charts) and more traditional binary grid systems—such as wool milling—to think about the relationship of technology to landscape and the human body.

Charlotte Prodger

Charlotte Prodger (b.1974) lives and works in Glasgow. Forthcoming solo shows include: Temple Bar, Dublin (2015); Hollybush Gardens, London (2016) and Tramway, Glasgow (2017). Selected group shows include: British Art Show (touring); The Weight Of Data, Tate Britain, London; The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York; An Interior That Remains an Exterior, Kunstlerhaus Gratz, Austria (all 2015); Annals of the Twentieth Century, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; Phantom Limbs, Pilar Corrias, London (both 2014); Holes in The Wall, Kunstalle Freiburg, Switzerland; Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (both 2013).

Selected past solo shows include: Markets, Chelsea Space, London;Nephatiti, Glasgow International Director’s Programme, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow (all 2014); Percussion Biface 1-13, Studio Voltaire, London; :-*, Intermedia CCA, Glasgow; Essex Street, New York (all 2012); and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2011). Charlotte Prodger was shortlisted for the 2013 Jarman Award and won the 2014 Margaret Tait Award. She is represented by Koppe Astner.