COMMA, the successful series of fast paced exhibitions, continues at Bloomberg SPACE with newly commissioned works by artists Boyd Webb and Suchan Kinoshita.
Established photographer Boyd Webb, widely considered as a pioneer of the constructed photographic image, has been commissioned to create a pair of large-scale images in response to the voluminous front gallery. Easily viewed from the street the two new huge photographic works pasted flat against the gallery walls create a connection linking the interior of the gallery to the public square beyond.
For COMMA, Webb has chosen not to create fantastical tableaux, but
rather to focus his lens on two separate bizarre yet mesmerizing images. The first piece enlarges to an enormous scale a craft model of a sheep. The original hand made object – wrongly proportioned, without a mouth yet complete with horns – appears as a gigantic genetic mutation.
On an adjacent wall Webb will present what at first appears as a sticky, visceral, organic asteroid, but which on closer inspection reveals itself as the accumulated sleep from the eye of a dog blown up to gigantic scale. This small ball of excretion operates almost as a computer ZIP file containing all the imagery that has been seen by the animal compressed into matter.
Suchan Kinoshita is known for her installations and objects which create ‘situations’ in which the viewer is given an active role. Her work engages visitors with objects and architecture, subtly directing their movements through space and involving them physically and emotionally in her all-
encompassing staged environments.
For COMMA, Kinoshita will transform the rear gallery into one of her theatrical sets. The usual surface of the gallery will disappear under a new covering of yellow peg board, whilst the balcony will be draped with a series of floating projection screens for her short videos documenting a number of performances realised in the offices of Bloomberg LP.
In these performances, Bloomberg employees become the performers of Kinoshita’s singular musical instrument. Each performer sits in the centre of a platform which slowly rotates passing a number of music stands on to which the artist writes words in chalk. The performers are asked to improvise in response to these changing words thereby creating stories, songs, inner monologues, or imaginary dialogues. Typically Kinoshita is interested in exposing the processes that she follows to produce her pieces. Displayed in the gallery the rotating platform becomes an immobile prop within the staged intimacy of the space of the balcony, lit with several small disco balls. In this metamorphosed atmosphere, Kinoshita then allows visitors to invent their own.
