SAVORR VIII - Fiona Livesey at Samson & Hercules + Open Submission Exhibition

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SAVORR is a Norwich based bi-monthly open submission exhibition, social event and artistic platform. For each event we also feature the work of one artist or collective alongside the rest of the works. Our 2012/13 year of exhibitions will be concluded with the launch of a publication documenting the events at a group exhibition of all the featured artists in London, April 2013. SAVORR is a non-profit organisation and there is no commission taken on the sale of works. www.savorr.co.uk SAVORR VIII Samson & Hercules, Tombland, Norwich NR3 1HP Located opposite the main Cathedral entrance. 2 statues frame the exhibition doorway. Private View & Opening Event - All Welcome Wednesday 5th September 7:00 - 10:00pm We'll be carrying on drinks and discussion next door at Take 5 after closing. Exhibition Open Thursday 6th - Monday 10th September 12:00 - 5:00pm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Featured Artist Fiona Livesey http://www.fionalivesey.com/ SAVORR VIII presents new work from London based artist and art theorist Fiona Livesey. In this new and site specific work created exclusively for SAVORR, Livesey employs the intangible properties of light, film and scent to encourage a directly visceral interaction with the work. This rejection of an exclusively retinal art is contrasted and made evident by the presence of static sculptural elements that add additional layers of experience to the piece. Blatant visual references to the space's socio-historic context are contrasted with more orthodox formal abstraction in a manner that corrupts the straightforward reading of their form. This becomes manifest within the work as a self-conscious loss of open narrative, highlighting the impossibility of imposing a universal reading of a work upon its audience. In this respect the artist offers the work up to its viewers for interpretation. The lack of coherent narrative inherent within this piece is created in direct response to the transient and indistinct identity of its spatial context. Stripped of its interior yet still holding both physical and spectral elements of its past, the Samson and Hercules building can be read as a transitional space, void, at present, of a definite identity, coherent past or foreseeable future. Fiona Livesey graduated from Norwich University College of the Arts in 2010 with first class honours in Visual Studies. In September this year she shall commence an MA in Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, studying Modernism After Post-Modernism under the tutorage of Dr Gavin Parkinson. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Open Submission Exhibition Benedict Hemmens http://benedicthemmens.tumblr.com/ David McLeavy http://www.davidmcleavy.co.uk/ Henry Jackson Newcomb http://www.henryjacksonnewcomb.co.uk/ James Hassall http://jameshassall.co.uk/ Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu http://jebila.com/ Jim Howieson http://www.jimhowieson.com/ Matthew Parkin http://mathewparkin.co.uk/ Nina Fowler http://ninafowler.com/index.php Rachel Kurdynowska http://rachelkurdynowska.tumblr.com/ Simon Welfare http://simonedwardwelfare.tumblr.com/