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BFI Southbank

Lynette Wallworth
Hold: Vessel 2, 2007
BFI Southbank, London SE1
23 June - 2 September

Lynette Wallworth’s London debut sees the BFI commissioning Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, enabling the artist to further develop her critically acclaimed piece Hold: Vessel 1, 2001. An interactive, large-scale installation that explores the intimacy and immensity of the natural world and our relationship to it, this work uses moving image and technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world.

The piece is activated by the viewer, the interaction being a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. Upon entering the exhibition space, the visitor is encouraged to ‘catch’ falling projected images of astronomical and underwater life in lens-shaped glass bowls. With intimate moments of synchronised light and sound, the installation celebrates minutiae - microscopic views of marine life forms and photographic imagery of deep space - leaving the visitor with a sense of communal participation within a complex system of which we are a part.

The images in Hold: Vessel 2 come from current visioning technologies such as X-ray Microtomography and remotely operated light sensitive cameras allowing us to see intricate detail inaccessible to the human eye. A reflection upon our own place in a complex and starkly beautiful world, the work helps us explore the complex interconnectivity between things that we do not always see or know.

Lynette Wallworth is the second of an ongoing series of art exhibitions at BFI Southbank exploring contemporary artists’ use of the moving image.

Artist’s talk: Lynette Wallworth in Conversation
Lynette Wallworth discusses her work with renowned scientist, writer and presenter Mark Lythgoe
Tue 3 July 18:20 NFT2

Entrance to the BFI Southbank Gallery is FREE.
For more information, visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/gallery or call 020 7928 3232

Lynette Wallworth - Hold: Vessel 1, 2001
Courtesy of and commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia http://www.acmi.net.au

Lynette Wallworth - Hold: Vessel 2, 2007
Commissioned by the BFI, London, Produced by Forma Touring and Supported by Arts Council England

For more information go to: http://www.bfi.org.uk/gallery

Artists Space

JUNE 15 – JULY 28, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 15
6:00-8:00 PM

Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212.226.3970
Fax: 212.966.1434
email: info@artistsspace.org

MAIN SPACE
New Economy
Curated by João Ribas

Chantal Akerman, Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Mike Bouchet, Heath Bunting, Los Carpinteros, Carolina Caycedo, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Harun Farocki, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG, Cildo Meireles, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Oliver Ressler, Joe Scanlan, Santiago Sierra, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Milica Tomic, Donelle Woolford

Special Film Screenings in conjunction with New Economy
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
Tuesday, June 19 and Thursday, July 5
7:30 pm
Chantal Akerman
FROM THE OTHER SIDE / DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ
2002, 99 minutes. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

CAMPARI PROJECT SPACE
New Works
Aloïs Godinat
Curated by Fabienne Stephan

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PROJECT SERIES
Contemporary Architecture – an installation by realities:united
Design team: Jan Elder, Tim Elder, Mason Juday
Curated by Christian Rattemeyer

For more information please visit http://www.artistsspace.org

For more information go to: http://www.artistsspace.org

ar/ge kunst Galleria Museo

7th June – 26th July 2007

Curated by Astrid Wege

ar/ge kunst
Galleria Museo
via Museo 29
I – 39100 Bolzano/Bozen
http://www.argekunst.it

“What I have seen, I won’t talk about” is what Jeanne Faust entitles her exhibition in the Gallery Museum, Bolzano, and so focuses attention on one of the central themes of her artistic work: the relationship between images and language.

The moments of imagination, of projections and emotions that stick to the perception and interpretation of images play a major part in Jeanne Faust’s films and photographic work. These pictures, which form her new series and are exhibited here for the first time as a solo show, pick up these elements. They refer to media pictures that try to capture significant events in a concise image and, through the repetition of the same or similar motifs, coagulate to become stereotypical signs.

Jeanne Faust uses such pictures as patterns for her silhouettes and photographs them
again. The work then passes through various stages of medial transformations and interpretations, until a connection to the motif of the initial picture becomes almost impossible. Yet a feeling of discomfort results, though – or precisely because – an almost frightening beauty inhabits the works. For example, when the picture of a festively decorated street of houses fails to reveal that a fire had recently broken out there.

Jeanne Faust is intrigued by the power of seduction that beautiful surfaces possess – and distrusts it completely. In her film IV she shows in a similar way the discrepancy between the linguistic approach to the image and the picture as described. As the title of the exhibition suggests, sometimes it is best to say nothing. Yet, Jeanne Faust’s pictorial language is extremely eloquent and refined.

Jeanne Faust was born in 1968 in Wiesbaden and lives in Hamburg. She has had numerous exhibitions and is nominated for the National Gallery’s Prize for Young Art, Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin, in 2007. “What I have seen, I won’t talk about” is Jeanne Faust’s first solo show in Italy.

For more information go to: http://www.argekunst.it