18 September - 28 November 2010
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| © Emily Wardill
"Game Keepers without Game", 2009
video projection with 5.1 sound, 72' |
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EMILY WARDILL
"windows broken, break, broke together”
18 Sep — 28 Nov 2010
de Appel Boys'school, Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59
Opening Friday September 17, from 6 pm onwards
Structured around an ongoing dialogue between British artist Emily
Wardill and artist/curator Ian White, the solo exhibition "windows
broken, break, broke together” is the most extensive exhibition of
Wardill’s films to date. Described as ‘brilliant cinematic labyrinths.
Visually striking and playfully rigorous’ the films occupy wildly
different stylistic positions as a means of re-animating the ways in
which form can become the unquestioned carrier of meaning – by the way
in which meaning is implied through metaphor or example, inscribed by
case studies, fictionalised in props or interpreted in art criticism,
status symbols and as the evidence of crime.
Wardill poses fundamental questions about perception, representation,
the relationship between politics and linguistics and probes the
mysteries and mechanisms of human communication, reconfiguring ideas of
and as experience. Sound and music are an integral part of the work.
Three public lectures by Emily Wardill and Ian White mark the beginning,
middle and end of the exhibition. Conceived as a triptych they respond
to the themes of the show in both form and content, proposing three
different routes through the work on display and three different
attempts at embodying knowledge. The lectures also provide the structure
for the publication ‘We are behind’ that accompanies the exhibition,
published by de Appel arts centre and Book Works, London.
The exhibition will present six 16 mm films and one video projection:
"Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul”, 2006, 16mm, 9’
"Basking in what feels like 'An Ocean of Grace' I soon realise that I am
not looking at it, but rather, I AM it, recognising myself”, 2006,
16mm, 8’
"Ben”, 2006, 16mm, 10’
"Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck”, 2007, 16mm, 12’
"SEA OAK”, 2008, 16mm Installation, 51’
"The Diamond (Descartes Daughter)”, 2008, 16mm, 10’
"Game Keepers without Game”, 2009, video projection with 5.1 sound, 72’
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