Map as Art
October 28, 2009
The Map as Art
October 22, 2009
“Dislocation”
will be featuring in the forthcoming exhibition
The Map as Art
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, christopherhenrygallery.com
Start date: 05-Nov-2009
End date: 10-Jan-2010
Exhibition at The Christopher Henry Gallery, New York to accompany the launch of curator and author
Katharine Harmon’s new book;
THE MAP AS ART: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press)
Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street NY, NY 10013. T 212.244.6004
Dislocated
October 22, 2009
Dislocated
to the point of abstraction
original photographs by Jussi Mononen www.juniorshutterbug.com who has kindly given permission for me to process them to within an inch of their lives
Dislocation Dislocated
October 21, 2009
fortissimo
October 9, 2009
ff
Himmel und Höller
October 8, 2009
Himmel und Höller
Musical Deconstruction
BOXED
October 7, 2009
BOXED
2009
Folded Road Maps from The Landguard Residency
DISLOCATION SERIES
October 6, 2009
Dislocation Series: British Isles, 2009
Dissected road atlases.
Deconstructed to give a distorted picture, misleading information, heighten confusion, and give a false sense of security.
“The book feels to me like the recording of many overlapping journeys, blending into one. It brings me to a depth of thought that I love, and I enjoy those relationships between labor and materials, and in this case how that time feels (to me) like such a part of real and metaphorical travels (implied by the use of maps), in the thoughts that occur as the work takes place. The removal of places, leaving only threads behind, suggests a desire to forget, a loss of memory, or selectively remembering by keeping what’s wanted intact”
(Laura Mayotte)
SPIRIT
October 6, 2009
STACK (Hypertension)
‘STACK (Hypertension)’ is the first in a series of towers / heaps of paper: observing the ways people close to me collect & hoard objects. On a personal level, it is within my nature (a) to hoard / archive objects, and (b) deconstruct / destroy them. As an inherited trait, this interests me a great deal: not only do the objects themselves contain a history, but so does the obsessive way in which they are treated.
FLIP (release)
My Mother-in-Law hoarded newspapers and magazines, and kept them piled up in a gigantic stack on a footstool infront of the television – usually it obscured the view. She refused to throw any of them away as they might have a useful article or interesting recipe inside.
One boring Sunday, this inspired me to make an even bigger pile of newspapers, so high that they would reach the ceiling – it was so precarious it had to be supported by steel wires in my studio (this was “Hypertension” – the first in the series). Eventually I was forced to dismantle it, as it was in danger of bringing the ceiling down – and quite as an afterthought, stacked the papers in the corner and threw the footstool upside down ontop of the pile – hey presto “FLIP(release)” (Part 2). This is the one I recreated in the Fort.
I always intended to take the papers to the dump for recycling after the show as there is no space for me to keep them, and even I think that would be silly…
On the final day of the exhibition, I went to do one of my usual checks on the exhibition rooms – and found to my surprise that for the first time in over a month of not moving, the pile had buckled in the middle, and looked in severe danger of collapse – but I managed to shore it up sufficiently to last until the end of the exhibition.
This was the day she died.
SPIRIT
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This is what remains, and it is the last in the series, “Hypertensinon”, “FLIP (release)” and “Spirit”
POINTS OF REFERENCE
October 6, 2009
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
4th April – 4th May 2009
This exhibition looks at the creative aspects of recycling, deconstructing and re-building found reference materials (books, maps, etc) into artworks.
Emma uses objects, images, and text to explore recurring themes such as the fragmented nature of memory, time and history. Found objects are reconstructed into artworks which often have a defined structural or ‘architectural’ form relating to the space they inhabit, but also standing as a tangible and symbolic presence of the information contained within (books, maps, letters, etc).
The exhibition brings together a series of installations and sculptures dealing with issues of deconstruction and transformation and the ambiguity of communication, and will also include an ongoing series of work dealing with maps, their imagery and concepts. A series of maps and atlases have been painstakingly ‘dissected’ by the artist, revealing a radically altered visual and physical structure.
Against the Grain
A floor-based installation made out of large quantities of folded paperback books. Deals with issues of deconstruction and transformation, the recycling of materials, and the ambiguity of text – as well as the obsessive repetitive actions used in the making of the work.
Dislocation: Landguard, 2009
Images from the residency at Landguard Fort, April 2009.