'When the room is lost and gone, there remains the memory that we once loved a room, once lived in a room. We return to them in our dreams...' Gaston Bachelard.
WHITE CUBICLE / BARBERCAN 24 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9DU
Monday 16 May 2011
Sarah Gavin
Monday 14 February 2011
Thursday 10 February 2011
'Legs, Torso, Plant, Door 6x4', 2010 - present.
a text recieved from a friend who'd just visited the window : 'According to your art, your family's heads are full of chlorofyll and have an issue with doors. Terrifying and funny at the same time...'
Monday 7 February 2011
Friday 10 December 2010
'Window Shopping' by Nicki-joe Baxter (homagenarrative)
‘Window Shopping’ by Nicki-joe Baxter (6th Dec – 13th Dec)
In this installation Nicki-joe has emulated conventions of television shop display using the medium of collage, photography, and film. Nicki-joe has produced large scale photographs of television screens (which have been extracted from his own family photographs) and displayed them alongside a television playing footage from ‘Forrest Gump’ and ‘Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’. The movies included contain real life imagery that has been carefully placed into the feature films. Nicki-joe’s televisions are also carefully extracted images which are then placed into new narratives.
The still and moving images present the audience with a sort of double take. At first glance the piece will look like a television shop window display, provoking the viewer to want to enter the shop. But at a closer look you the viewer become aware that the televisions aren’t real and that there is no shop. With it being the Christmas period on and off the screen, the installation only viewable through the glass, Nicki-joe is asking the viewer to re-consider what it is they’re seeing and engaging with at that particular time and place.
Tuesday 30 November 2010
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