Exhibition

Ruth Proctor - Just Like That

7 May 2010 – 26 Jun 2010

Event times

Friday and saturdays 12 - 6pm

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Free

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West London Projects

London, United Kingdom

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  • 11, 14, 414
  • Fulham Broadway
  • West Brompton
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westlondonprojects is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Ruth Proctor, titled Just like that. Employing her specific artistic practise the London based artist will create a stage-like installation consisting of a film and objects newly produced for the exhibition. The title Just Like That refers to a catchphrase made famous by Tommy Cooper, a British comedian working in the 1970s whose stage persona required that his magic act intentionally went wrong for comic effect. Intrigued by showmanship, slapstick and its legacies Ruth Proctor presents a new film and sculptures that recalibrate a range of references from the Dada films of Fernand Léger and Hans Richter to the comedy of Cooper and his fellow famous British actor and comedian Tony Hancock. Responding to particular spaces and times, Proctor stages performative moments by activating relationships between objects, surfaces, plays of light and shade, and their continuous reflection and inflection. For westlondonprojects, she has staged a ‘mis en scene' between objects and a film, presenting elements as if assembled in a formation of gymnasts or cheerleaders Based on drumbeats and rhythms the film is choreographed to the imagery of moving objects. The majority of objects are drum shells that move within the frame of a school gym hall using the lines of a basketball court and climbing bars as the stage set, simultaneously posing restrictions for the drums to move within, as if part of a game we have yet to understand. For Proctor the making of the film itself is an intricate hand made endeavour, editing and splicing the footage together, determining the rhythmical logic of what we see. Although silent the rhythms suggested by the imagery and editing allow sound to become integral in a visual sense. For Proctor it is important that meaning is structurally embedded in the material of film itself, using the effects available to 16mm such as hand tinting and overlay techniques. Born in 1980 in the UK Ruth Proctor studied painting at The Royal College of Art in London where she graduated in 2005. Ruth Proctor lives and works in London and is represented by Hollybush Gardens, London. Recent exhibitions include: ou la vie saisie par l'art, curated by Aurélie Voltz, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (2010), Coreografia del Sintomo, Norma Mangione, Torino (2009), Showtime, Gasworks and her solo show The Stranger and The Savant, Hollybush Gardens both in London in 2008.

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