Planting The Tele
25 November - 13 January 2007
Mary Mary presents this group exhibition curated by Glasgow - based painter, Hayley Tompkins. The exhibition comprises recent works by Karla Black (UK), Ernst Caramelle (Austria), Joachim Koester (Denmark), Helen Mirra (US) and Bojan Sarcevic (France).
Within the exhibition is a reading area, which includes a reprinted set of Document 2 & 3 by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein (1973), a pair of editions by Sanja Ivekovic, 'Double Life' and 'Tragedy of a Venus' (1975-78) and a printed edition by Anne-Marie Copestake. The film 'Celine and Julie go Boating' (1974) by Jacques Rivette is shown in its entirety on an adjacent screen. With its ambivalent structure, the film projects an evocative moving image using a winding, loose form of narrative that appears to collect around the works in both rooms. Connecting the individual practices, is the idea of the document of time,the present, the recall, or revisit. An intra-active situation is implied where histories become loosened and reworked whilst referencing both real and imagined place.
The 'tele' in the title talks in the vernacular, but perhaps alludes to its literal meaning, of faraway or distant where certainty is questioned and imbedded elsewhere. In this grouping, the choice of works brings this private narrative process closer as the artists appear to discuss the true nature of contingencies, devices and change.
Like the two female leads in Rivette's film who insert themselves into their own story, the works move lengthways, back and forth, in their search for meanings that go beyond the personal to somewhere more anonymous and roomy. They bring a philosophical play of comparability and incomparability to the viewer’s attention. One intention for the exhibition is to communicate the experience of seeing and disputing these differences.
Being only ever an extract itself, the exhibition opens outwards to contain and admit the world it refers to. The 'planting' in the title of the show represents this on-going positive, organic activity and the gentle imbedding of alternate means of artistic production. Or in another way - its continual replanting.
There will be an accompanying publication for the exhibition which will be launched in mid 2007
This exhibition is supported by Hope Scott Trust & The Elephant Trust and Glasgow City Council
Within the exhibition is a reading area, which includes a reprinted set of Document 2 & 3 by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein (1973), a pair of editions by Sanja Ivekovic, 'Double Life' and 'Tragedy of a Venus' (1975-78) and a printed edition by Anne-Marie Copestake. The film 'Celine and Julie go Boating' (1974) by Jacques Rivette is shown in its entirety on an adjacent screen. With its ambivalent structure, the film projects an evocative moving image using a winding, loose form of narrative that appears to collect around the works in both rooms. Connecting the individual practices, is the idea of the document of time,the present, the recall, or revisit. An intra-active situation is implied where histories become loosened and reworked whilst referencing both real and imagined place.
The 'tele' in the title talks in the vernacular, but perhaps alludes to its literal meaning, of faraway or distant where certainty is questioned and imbedded elsewhere. In this grouping, the choice of works brings this private narrative process closer as the artists appear to discuss the true nature of contingencies, devices and change.
Like the two female leads in Rivette's film who insert themselves into their own story, the works move lengthways, back and forth, in their search for meanings that go beyond the personal to somewhere more anonymous and roomy. They bring a philosophical play of comparability and incomparability to the viewer’s attention. One intention for the exhibition is to communicate the experience of seeing and disputing these differences.
Being only ever an extract itself, the exhibition opens outwards to contain and admit the world it refers to. The 'planting' in the title of the show represents this on-going positive, organic activity and the gentle imbedding of alternate means of artistic production. Or in another way - its continual replanting.
There will be an accompanying publication for the exhibition which will be launched in mid 2007
This exhibition is supported by Hope Scott Trust & The Elephant Trust and Glasgow City Council