SMART Project Space | 1st Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam
Dear Friends,
We wish you a happy new year and request the pleasure of your company at ou=
r first exhibition opening and new years reception of 2003
Someone To Watch Over Me | January 11 - February 16, 2003
Work by: Slater Bradley, Paul Carter, Alex Cecchetti, Fanni Niemi Junkola, =
Tom Molloy,
Eva Rothschild, Claire Todd, Mark Wallinger
Opening Reception Saturday January 11, 21:00h
The exhibition Someone To Watch Over Me presents artists whose works encoun=
ter faith and the divine. Employing irony, satire and formal clarity, these=
artists see their environment as a culture of contradictions, traditions a=
nd quiet revolutions. In dealing with subjects such as religious faith and =
atheism, life cycles, and the relation of the individual to the State, the =
works are characterised by violent swings from the abstract and ethereal to=
the concrete and the gritty. There is a perennial youthfulness, a naive ne=
cessity to ask the big questions that we try to put aside after adolescence=
: Where do I belong? Who do I belong with? What does it mean to believe in =
something? What happens to us when we die? Who will watch over me?'
Slater Bradley captures tensions that lie between a sense of reality and ar=
tifice. His unnerving DVD projection titled "Female Gargoyle" shows real-li=
fe footage of a tattooed young woman sitting on the corner precipice of a t=
all building, one leg dangling precariously over the edge. In a close-up vi=
ew she smokes a cigarette and then weeps whilst contemplating suicide. Brad=
ley has been enclosed the woman and she remains perpetually adorning the co=
rner precipice, a gothic creature of mythical proportions. The artist offer=
s his audience a compelling image that traps and mesmerises without the rel=
ief of sentiment. Bradley thrives on visual tension and his critical detach=
ment does not fail to disturb.
'On an Operating Table', by Mark Wallinger, projects the image of the light=
in an operating theatre onto the wall, shifting the viewer through 90
SMART Project Space | 1st Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam
Dear Friends,
We wish you a happy new year and request the pleasure of your company at ou=
r first exhibition opening and new years reception of 2003
Someone To Watch Over Me | January 11 - February 16, 2003
Work by: Slater Bradley, Paul Carter, Alex Cecchetti, Fanni Niemi Junkola, =
Tom Molloy,
Eva Rothschild, Claire Todd, Mark Wallinger
Opening Reception Saturday January 11, 21:00h
The exhibition Someone To Watch Over Me presents artists whose works encoun=
ter faith and the divine. Employing irony, satire and formal clarity, these=
artists see their environment as a culture of contradictions, traditions a=
nd quiet revolutions. In dealing with subjects such as religious faith and =
atheism, life cycles, and the relation of the individual to the State, the =
works are characterised by violent swings from the abstract and ethereal to=
the concrete and the gritty. There is a perennial youthfulness, a naive ne=
cessity to ask the big questions that we try to put aside after adolescence=
: Where do I belong? Who do I belong with? What does it mean to believe in =
something? What happens to us when we die? Who will watch over me?'
Slater Bradley captures tensions that lie between a sense of reality and ar=
tifice. His unnerving DVD projection titled "Female Gargoyle" shows real-li=
fe footage of a tattooed young woman sitting on the corner precipice of a t=
all building, one leg dangling precariously over the edge. In a close-up vi=
ew she smokes a cigarette and then weeps whilst contemplating suicide. Brad=
ley has been enclosed the woman and she remains perpetually adorning the co=
rner precipice, a gothic creature of mythical proportions. The artist offer=
s his audience a compelling image that traps and mesmerises without the rel=
ief of sentiment. Bradley thrives on visual tension and his critical detach=
ment does not fail to disturb.
'On an Operating Table', by Mark Wallinger, projects the image of the light=
in an operating theatre onto the wall, shifting the viewer through 90