the centre of attention
Leaving
on a flat bed picture plane
(Migration, rupture and disenchantment)
curated by the Centre of Attention
John
Armleder/Team 404, Emi Avora, Calum Colvin,
Donna Conlon, Gareth Jones, Valérie Mréjen, Frida Yngström
Unit 201, 54-58 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DP
opening: Friday 17 February, 7 to 9 pm
18 Feb to 12 March 2006, Sat & Sun, 1 to 6 pm
The notion
of disorientation and reconstruction is literally built in to Calum Colvin's
works, which originate
All my bags are packed
as three-dimensional
sets painted over to create the illusion of a flat image.
I'm ready to go
In Valérie Mréjen's Dieu, eight people who were born into
ultra-Orthodox Jewish families recount
I'm standing here
outside your door
memories associated with their departure from religion: the moment when
the decision was taken,
I hate to wake you
up to say goodbye
the first violation of a prohibition, the performance of an act never
allowed before.
But the dawn is breakin',
For most of the photographed subjects, that moment marked the beginning
It's early morning
of the rift with their families and of total rejection by their community.
The taxi's waitin'
In Todo arreglado, Donna Conlon's hand places garbage in unusual places
in the city
He's blowin' his horn
by inserting plastic bags in trees or fences; and glass bottles, plastic
caps, forks, spoons, and
Already I'm so lonesome
straws in small holes or spaces where they seem to fit perfectly.
I could die
Gareth Jones "I spend a lot of time cycling through the City of London
and I look at the office foyers,
So kiss me and smile
for me
and there's always a chair and a plant and a painting, and I like the
idea that actually the chair,
Tell me that you'll
wait for me
the plant and the painting might really all be totally equivalent even
though, as a culture, we decide to
Hold me like you'll
never let me go.
give them different hierarchies of value."
I'm leavin' on a jet
plane
"Yellow Pages"
by John Armleder and Team 404 contains contributions of over 500 artists
from all over the world,
I don't know when I'll
be back again
randomly overlapped and
printed two times. Conceived as an improbable Yellow Pages directory
Oh, babe, I hate to
go.
the question of how to
use it and what type of communication it can lead to, remains open.
There's so many times
I've let you down
Emi Avora Born: Greece
Lives and works in London Education: RA Schools, Dip; Ruskin School of
Fine Art,
So many times I've
played around
BOC Emerging Artist Shortlist
2004; Armory Show, NY, 2005; Greenberg Van Doren Gallery...
I tell you now, they
don't mean a thing
Frida går fjärde
året på Valand efter att ha gått Central Saint-Martin´s
College
Ev'ry place I go, I'll
think of you
Hon har deltagit med
så kallad performative art på gallerier i Melbourne, Bogota
och Stockholm.
Ev'ry song I sing,
I'll sing for you…
