Exhibition
Nicole Vinokur: Paridayda
27 Jun 2016 – 23 Jul 2016
Event times
Open to the public 13 – 23 July, Wed-Sat 12-6pm.
Walks Programme
29 June: 2-4pm Bunhill Fields
05 July: 2-4pm Postman’s Park
07 July: 2-4pm Tour of graveyards
19 July: 10:45am-1pm Alderney Rd Ashkenazi Cemetery and Velho Sephardic Cemetery
Walks will begin at the gallery except on 19 July (walk will begin at Stepney Green Station)
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 107 Essex Road
- Canonbury
- London
- N1 2SL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 38, 56, 73, 341, 476 (and on neary Upper Street 4, 19, 30, 43)
- Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road
Nicole Vinokur is Tintype's project space artist for 2016. During her time at the gallery she will be cultivating a meadow within the space, accompanied by a series of walks through significant locations in north London.
About
Tintype is pleased to announce that Nicole Vinokur is our project space artist for 2016. Paridayda is an experiment in turning inside space into a faux outside.
The project stems from a fable about an Indian ship which docked at an English port. The crew asked to be taken to walk on grass as they lived surrounded by metal. They were taken to walk barefoot in a nearby graveyard – then returned to their ship to live surrounded by metal once again.
The meadow indoors is consciously located within a space and dislocated from its origin. Vinokur’s intention is to cultivate a meadow and once it has become established to offer it as an immersive installation alongside a series of walks to some of north London’s many churchyards and cemeteries; “I am interested in creating a sensory space of encounter in which concentrated experience and closeness to our own materiality and mortality can come into focus.”
Paridayda, the Old Persian root for the word paradise translates as “walled enclosure” relating to oases. This later appeared in Greek as paradeisos to denote areas of cultivated walled gardens or parks. Vinokur’s reframing of a meadow inside a gallery, offers an incongruous phenomenon – for the final week the public will be invited to walk barefoot, sit or rest within the space.
Material, physicality, process and impermanence – the accretions of time through layering, are motifs of Nicole Vinokur’s interdisciplinary practice. Her monumental piece Giotto’s Cosmic Crush, constructed from chalk, marble dust plaster and a single bronze cast fly is suggestive of a sarcophagus or tomb and integrates notions of tromp l’oeil; the ‘lure of the gaze’ (Lacan), disrupting the relationship between image and reality.
Nicole Vinokur is a South African artist living and working in London. She studied at Pretoria Technikon (2004) and the Royal College of Art (MA Sculpture, 2015). She is the recipient of the Red Mansion Prize (2015); Artist/Curator Fellowship with Grizedale Arts (2014); shortlisted for Cowley Manor Art Prize (2014); Young Vision Award (2005); and has been supported by National Arts Council South Africa. Her work has been shown internationally including Camden Arts Centre (UK); 50th Venice Biennale (IT); Modern Art Projects (ZA); Favela Pavilion (MX); Museum of Africa (ZA); London Print Studio (UK); Henry Moore Gallery (UK). Recent shows in 2016 include Gardeners and Astronomers, Caustic Coastal (Salford); Artificial Arcadia, Bosse and Baum (London); and Shucky, Hintut?, The Hostry (Norwich). Vinokur is currently working on a long term project with Grizedale Arts recreating Ruskin’s Road in the village of Coniston, Cumbria.
Tintype Project Space is an annual event in which an artist is invited to use the gallery as a studio or working space followed by a show. Previous artists have been An Gee Chan, Tom Woolner, Florence Peake, Beth Collar, and Holly Slingsby.
SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND