Displacements is a unique performative exhibition that presents Helena Hunter’s previous works: The Other Room, Tracing Shadows and dis-locate. Hunter dedicates a specific exhibition area to each work including film, photographic images, and performance excerpts from each piece. The artist interacts with each section, moving through the exhibition establishing overlaps and coherences, combining the three separate works into one.
In The Other Room a half horse half human figure attempts to stand and perform a tap dance. Tracing Shadows presents an interaction with the female body and a small blue dress, and dis-locate explores the idea of ‘dis-location’ as an empowered and disruptive state. The performances were originally conceived for a black box theatre space and have been presented at theatres across the UK and Europe. For the exhibition the artist reworks sections of the performances for presentation in a gallery space including photographic images and filmed excerpts from past work. The exhibition features sound work by Mark Peter Wright (Sonic Arts, British Composer of the Year 2009).
For information regarding the printed images included in the exhibition please contact Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan.
'Helena Hunter is a rising star in the British performance scene; she turns thought into the spirit of her creative exploration. The body is the enactment and setting of immediacy, a medium oscillating between dimensional extremes, between reality and its theatrical representation.' Geraldine Zodo, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy.
‘Controversial and disturbing…we are faced with our own foolishness and are forced to question our condition.’ Swide Magazine, Milan, Italy. |
