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, lies the belief that art can mirror every facet of contemporary life—even its most trivial impulses. Developed in conjunction with a Master’s degree at Goldsmiths, University of London, the installation brings together multiple video works, ready-made sculptures, and found materials to initiate a dialogue around the de-poeticised affirmations of the domestic sphere.
The composition evokes the ambience of an English garden, refracted through a lens of urban disarray—a catalogue of confused, everyday materials. Central to the installation is Falling in Grass, a video-sculpture hybrid that most clearly exemplifies Wilson’s exploration of how domesticity is shaped through symbolic forms.
Complementing this work are two single-channel videos, Whale Hunting and Sorry, I’ll Call You Again Tomorrow, both shot on Mini-DV home video tape, lending a tactile, nostalgic texture to the viewing experience. The installation also includes the first display of Notes from the Ground, a curated collection of found materials focused on common literature that expands upon the project’s overall themes.
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
TThe Mountains and the Aeroplanes of September Last Year brings together found footage, personal memory, and historical reference to explore how meaning is shaped by context. Drawing inspiration from Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon (1888) and the poetry and life of Hart Crane, the work unfolds as a loosely structured litany of symbols, dreams, and interrupted narratives.
Presented across two CRT monitors and a single projection, the installation centers on the recurring image of a man asleep at the foot of a mountain—a threshold figure through which fragmented scenarios and visual metaphors pass. The shifting relationships between sound, image, and format evoke a sense of dream-logic and emotional distance.
"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