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Gordana Andelic Galic,
Lisa Benson,
Neil Berecry Brown,
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen,
Ali Bramwell,
Saara Erkstrom,
Jieon Lee and
Thom Vinkat
Blue Oyster Gallery 24 Oct 2007 - 13 Nov 2007
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The moments when a fragile tension is broken, regrets for lost dreams, unrealised attractions, a wish for meaning and pattern in a life of increasing chaos, a simple desire to be somewhere else. Each moment has an experience of longing embedded in its logic. For some the pairing of beauty and loss creates a tang of melancholy, nostalgia. For others a search for the unattainable 'object' is a motivating drive that is creative as well as potentially escapist.
Independent curator Ali Bramwell has collected five works that use touch and repetition to explore forms of sublimated desire. The works in the exhibition share a similar approach, they are the results of documenting a physical process. Each process anchors a different moment of longing concretely, desire that is not abstract but embodied.
participating artists:
Gordana Andelic Galic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Lisa Benson (New Zealand)
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen (Norway)
Neil Berecry Brown & Jieon Lee ( Australia and South Korea, respectively)
Thom Vink & Saara Ekström (Netherlands and Finland, respectively)
Lost-Found, 2004 by Gordana Andelic Galic.
In the time of globalisation and creation of new world order, particularly affected are the so-called countries in transition. Especially those, such as countries of former Yugoslavia, which also suffered a long and brutal war. Amongst them, Bosnia and Herzegovina was affected most severely. The price of transition are burned households and vanished families, destroyed economy but also blooming of crime, newly emerged general economical and physical insecurity, 1.5 million displaced people and ruthless abuse of all human rights. In the face of the new reality Andelic Galic reacts with both pathos and humor. Lost-Found is documentation of an advertisement placed in the lost /found personal column.
Lost in Space, 2006
by Lisa Benson is a set of large format pinhole photographs from night long exposures of the night sky at Mount John Observatory. A process of capturing and freezing very slow movement together with sensation of profound distance and isolation.
Morpheus tale, 2007 by Viel Bjerkeset Andersen
shows the inevitable loss of ephemeral beauty played out and held in an attenuated moment. Bjerkeset Andersen is interested in the video presence as a thin layer, airy, a kind of hovering image that undermines the material nature of the loss depicted. She does not allow the viewer to forget that they are observing a construction.
Rehearsed ellipsis, 2005 by Neil Berecry Brown and Jieon Lee
maps a blind collusion, a beguiled occlusion loop for two players. The two are intently aware of one another but do not acknowledge or approach, instead they repeat their separate arcs of movement. A watcher and watched in a moment of tension that remains unresolved, unfinished, provisional, and slightly feral.
Dust, 2007 by Thom Vink and Saara Ekström
maps emergence of pattern from that most overlooked and derided household substance, dust. Vink and Ekström introduce a conflicted desire for pattern and ornamentation, dirty ornamentation, in a literal sense. The work is also a sardonic reference to how artistic tendency towards decoration and embellishment fell into intellectual disrepute.
List of works:
Lost/Found, 2004 by Gordana Andelic Galic. Digital image/ billboard.
Lost in Space, 2006 by Lisa Benson. 5. large photographic prints, 1200 x1200
Morpheus tale, 2007 by Viel Bjerkeset Andersen, video
Rehearsed ellipsis, 2005 (Daechong lake) part two of "Fool's Game": A play in two or three parts and 3/4 time. by Neil Berecry Brown, dancer: Jieon Lee. Video. Filmed on location in South Korea.
Dust, 2007 by Thom Vink and Saara Ekström. Video.
Lost in Space, 2006 by Lisa Benson. large photographic print, 1200 x1200
Dust, 2007 by Thom Vink and Saara Ekström. Video.
