Patrycja Loranc ‘Bloki, New Perspective’ 2022
Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions
17 - 27 March
12-6pm, Thur to Sun
Private View Thursday 17 March 6-8pm
Panel Discussion Thursday Mar 24, 5pm
Join via zoom link: https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92153425770
Introduction
A group exhibition featuring recent work by students on the Artists Film and Moving Image Masters at Goldsmiths, University of London, including Elisabetta Antonucci, James Carver, Philipp Ebeling, Christian Kingo, Ludivine Large-Bessette, Patrycja Loranc, Yixuan Lyu and Jacob George Wilson.
Supported by Goldsmiths University of London
Artist Bios
Ludivine Large-Bessette develops works on the frontier of video, digital art, photography and contemporary dance, and regularly collaborates with dancers. In her protean works, the image of the body becomes a mirror capable of bewildering and moving the viewer. Whether by playing with historical images, focusing on physical sensations, or creating surreal scenes, the aim is always to take the audience to task, through various means, on the place of the body in our social games and its role in our contemporary environment. To affirm the importance of the body and it’s dividing role in our relationship to ourselves and the world.
@ludivinelargebessette
Yixuan Lyu is a Chinese artist based in London. Language, with its ability to renunciate violence, can also hold the power that leads to the most violent moments in history. Is it the neutral tools used in an evil way, or is there something violent embedded in the nature of language, the signifier-signified structure, or the order-word statement? In Formalized Language (2022), English is broken down to the elementary level, sentences into words, and words into characters. With generative images, it attempts to approach the void of meaning beneath the surface of language.
Elisabetta Antonucci is an artist from the woods. She makes work about picnics, and the prejudice she faces as a stuffed animal. She is currently collaborating with a group of underprivileged birds living in South East London. “Lockdowns and solitude forced me to work with what I had: a good mobile phone, time, desolate surroundings to explore. My daily ritual became walking and looking carefully for a friendly presence, a message, a meaning. I keep collecting short videos and recording encounters with tiny nonhuman metaphorical presences. I don't modify anything; I film what I meet as it is. This is my personalised form of self-healing, meditation and spiritual practice.”
@ elisabetta_antonucci
Christian Kingo (b. 1993) is a Danish visual artist and musician based in London. Oscillating between cinema production techniques and experimental video art, he explores diverse tools of moving image within a singular framework. In this realm the anachronism of the past interlaces with the alienation of virtual spaces while the digital bleeds unto tactile objects. In Christian’s recent work digital memory is explored by the techniques of the ancient Greek method of the Memory Palace. That opens up suggestions on how we may introduce tangibility in new media or how we might shape ourselves to become more like data
Philipp Ebeling is a photographer and filmmaker. In his latest work sync/unsyn (2022) he explores the interplay of tension and release via a performance by Jazz vocalist Maggie Nichols in an attempt to understand the consequences of traumatic memory on our bodies. ‘ I want to understand how Traumas are stored in our bodies and how they shape us and become part of the fabric of ourselves. I want to explore the different ways we attempt to overcome Trauma and realign our minds with our bodies, to get in sync with ourselves.’ The video and sound installation is a collaboration with sound artists Nimzo Studio.
@ philippebelingphoto
Patrycja Loranc is a Polish artist working within video, sound, photography and text. With an interest in contemplative neuroscience and philosophy of direct experience, rooted in the neurodiversity paradigm, drive her to intuitive and experimental ways of creating, centring the uniqueness of subjective sensory, cognitive and emotional experiences. Her practice is inspired by states of consciousness and the idea of psychedelia (mind manifestation) in artistic process, which through devotion to authenticity of unique personal experience hopes to find new ways for communication and social change through the time-based media’s trip in here-and-now.
@psychepoeticlaundrette
Jacob George Wilson (b. 1999) is the son of a Plant mechanic and an Office administrator, is a British artist-filmmaker and writer working out of Camberwell, London. Jacob's works in both film and letters endeavour to expose his ignorance and articulate his non-understanding whilst also presenting new cases of reality through the appropriation of ordinary articles of life. In his work - Memories of a Skin Trader (2022), Jacob appropriates found footage material of varying kinds to render a scene informed by historical references such as Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon (1888) and various paintings of the reclined male nude.
James Carver's practice explores the themes of sexuality, sacrifice, mortality and authenticity. The search for a true self is at the core, working with a pared back technique, where often there are no edits and no camera moves. The focus is on the raw essence of the subject. Carver's films are moving portraits, baring the soul in order to reveal the truth. Transformer (2022) immerses the viewer in the process of Simon's transformation into Simone. The title pays homage to Lou Reed's album "Transformer" and the sentiment of it's content, with a soundscape that features excerpts from Carver's conversations with Simone.