Goldsmith's MFA 2022 Degree Show
Goldsmith's MFA 2022 Degree Show
In exhibition 21st - 26th of July
In exhibition 21st - 26th of July
At the heart of Jacob George Wilson's multi-media installation: Low Low's Air-Raid, before and after congress, is the sentiment that art can reflect all, including the most trivial values animating today's culture. The project, developed in connection with a master's degree at Goldsmiths University, combines multiple video works with ready-made sculpture and found material to begin a dialogue about the de-poeticised affirmations of domestic subjects. The arrangement of the installation evokes the domestic scene of an English garden or a catalogue of confused, urban materials. At the centre of the combination of works is Falling in Grass, a video and sculpture piece which best exemplifies Jacob's engagement with how we reach concepts like domesticity through symbols. Accompanying Falling in Grass are two single-channel video works: Whale hunting and Sorry, I'll call you again tomorrow, both shot using home video, Mini-DV tapes. As well as a collection of found materials/ writings titled Notes from the ground.
Goldsmith's Ma AFMI 2022 Interim show
Goldsmith's Ma AFMI 2022 Interim show
In exhibition 17th - 27th of march
In exhibition 17th - 27th of march
The mountains and the aeroplanes of September last year uses found footage material of varying kinds to render a scene informed by personal experience, historical references such as Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon (1888), and the life and poetry of Hart Crane. The piece is a three-channel installation consisting of two CRT monitors and a single projection, assembling a larger vision of a man sleeping at the foot of a mountain that develops a litany of symbols, scenarios, and loose narratives. The piece investigates how understanding is relational to context, how circumstances limit imagination, and that art is what we have to reason in the dominion over experience. [Quote] "The mountains and the aeroplanes of September last year are not just that, they are the mountains and the aeroplanes of every year of my life to come."
https://www.artistsmovingimage.info/call-it-what-you-will-group-exhibition.html
RICHARD SYLVARNES WE CAME FROM THE STARS
RICHARD SYLVARNES WE CAME FROM THE STARS
In exhibition SEP 6th & OCT 5th 2019
In exhibition SEP 6th & OCT 5th 2019
‘Synesthesia Space is pleased to present We Came From The Stars, a solo exhibition at the gallery by New York-based artist Richard Sylvarnes. This work consists of eighty photographs and a feature film titled Here Comes Everybody. Using the mediums of photography and video, Sylvarnes explores the underlying question of why we tell stories and how they shape our identity. In an elaborate network of storytelling that weaves together history, mythology, literature, fables, religion, and comic books, Sylvarnes plunges us through 4,000 years of Western civilization presented as a kaleidoscopic dream, or nightmare - depending on the viewer’s interpretation. The photographs were created utilizing a combination of processes using numerous chemical combinations and darkroom strategies; incorporating large doses of Potassium Ferricyanide, Sodium Thiosulfate, and Potassium Aluminum Sulfate, then rephotographed for further computer manipulation. The gallery will present twenty nine of the original eighty photographs that comprise the work as a whole. The accompanying film Here Comes Everybody is entirely composed of stills, most of them photographed in the style of nineteenth-century tableaux photography, manipulated through stop-motion animation, flicker, and rotoscoping. The film plays like an early magic lantern show, as if Eadweard Muybridge had gotten his hands on Final Cut Pro. "The most merciful thing in the world," says an angel-winged child in a scene from the film, "is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." As Sylvarnes says, “This exhibition chronicles the stories I was told that eventually became a part of who I am and of which I can not escape.”
On opening night there will be a special screening of Here Comes Everybody, along with two short films, Die Nacht Ist Leben and Cupiditas, which will feature live text and musical accompaniment.
●Die Nacht Ist Leben (19 minutes)
●Cupiditas (12 minutes)
●Here Comes Everybody (90 minutes