Catherine Bertola Unseen by all but me alone (2009)
This exhibition reveals a constant theme within Bertola’s work by drawing on the historic role of women and craft production. Bertola celebrates the skill and beauty prevalent to historical genres of craft and the decorative arts, and draws upon a legacy of collective struggle of women; and the presence of personal triumph and liberation that is often overlooked by history.
Unseen by all but me alone consists of a series of delicate handmade golden cobwebs that infiltrate the nooks and crannies of the bare and empty gallery space. With its roots in the origins of female labour the title is taken from a song, sung by Habetrot (a mythological figure in Anglo-Celtic folklore associated with spinning and healing and symbolised by the spinning wheel, wool, and the spiders web) in the story of Habetrot and the Scantlie Mab, a pagan tale that uses spinning as a metaphor and measure for a woman’s virtue. Bertola’s delicately spun webs reclaim space from the absence of human activity, and through their material value announce both a relationship with organic creation associated with neglect and the passing of time, and a
celebration of luxury and silent splendour.
Installations by Lisa Kellner
BAPTISTE DEBOMBOURG
Artist Baptiste DebomBourg created a site specific installation for an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne. The artist had laminate glass shattered and then put into place to mimic the feeling of water rushing into the room.
Entitled “Arial” more information on the work can be found here: http://www.baptistedebombourg.com/en/works/aerial-0
‘Pink Clouds’ by Everware allows us to feel the clouds at our fingertips. When you touch the sky, a giant fabric screen, you send in a rush of clouds in different shapes. Watch it happen here.
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Fave new artist find - Pipilotti Rist’s site specific installations full of lush sensual imagery
could spend my day there with headphones on.
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Mary Tuma - Homes for the Disembodied Next Piece, 2000
Installations by Markus Linnenbrink
DIEDRITTEDIMENSION
JVA/Prison 2011
Duesseldorf Rath, Germany
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“1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” location based installation by artist Doris Salcedo for the Istanbul Biennial
WHY DIDNT I SEE THIS I GO TO THE BIENNIAL EVERY YEAR I’M ANGRY </rant>
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“Panic Room” at the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France by Tilt.
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Installation by Henrique Oliveira
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Emma Winter’s Brollopy installation at Summer Sunset, Wasing, Hertfordshire
