‘Ocean Ghost’, Alexandra Flood
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Feltrooms and m{us}e are pleased to announce their shared fuel, an installation of works by four artists brought together to inaugurate Feltrooms new space at 17 Lever Street, London EC1V 3QU . feltrooms.com/
RSVP is recommended as space is limited.
The works assembled represent four contrasting visions of environments in flux, disharmony or violent change, and invite us to engage with these shared perspectives.
The works are intended to be viewed repeatedly over a period of time to encourage direct engagement and reflection by the viewer / guest.
Despite the possible undertone of doom and gloom, visitors have already been struck by the sense of play, celebration, humour and beauty present in these works, in which the artists help us visit and consider places we do not always wish to explore or experience.
Alexandra Flood includes several paintings from the series Black White Swan, which document and seek to interpret the flare patterns left behind by military aircraft in war zones. The complex residual beauty of spent fuel and ordinance cannot prevent us from wondering at the consequential destruction on the ground.
Douglas Park’s contribution is a video and framed text work created at the Feltrooms Glass House Yard in a rare performance (in bed with Douglas Park) of his seminal work Micro-Colonial-Drift / Growth-Area (via the Scenic-Route). In this early poetical prose piece Park explores his mythical and hybridised island landscape entity *inland acorn ocean island*. The entity is never actually named, but the poetic narrative shifts and mutates through repetition of the evolutionary protocol that brings us back to where we started via the perennial eternal reoccurring Growth-Area.
In her without video, Marta Michalowska faithfully records the domestic environment left behind by a loved one. Michalowska says of the work: “The work was prompted by an image I saw on my arrival in the family home after the death of my father and before his burial. The house was eerily quiet and dark. It took me a little while to realise that all the mirrors were covered by white bed linen. In the hour of loss, my mother decided to re-enact an ancient tradition and spare the tormented wondering soul endless bouncing between mirrors. The numerous antique mirrors decorating the flat remained covered until the funeral making the place felt compressed and gloomy reflecting our moods. The image provoked an exploration of death and loss through those that were left behind”
Vincent JF Huang is an artist with a strong interest in climate change and its reverse impacts on humankind. In The Last Penguins ceramic series we are drawn into the questions surrounding mortality and oblivion. Whilst distant and often denied, the shrinking nature of the arctic environment, melting and cracking, parallels life as it approaches death and threatens the long Emperors’ march to secure genetic eternity. Attempts to ornate and dress the inevitable appear futile and even comic.
About Feltrooms
Feltrooms was founded in 2008 by London based artists Mark Ciavola and Mark Sheldon Ross, in an attempt to bridge the divide between art practice and the built environment.
This initiative is an artist led self-funding, public arts platform and dwelling experience that provides opportunity and context for emerging art in London by bringing vacant and derelict buildings back into use.
Conceived as a collision between the practices of Architecture and Art installation, Feltrooms are intended to encourage dialogue across related disciplines.
Started in 2008 in Hackney in London’s East End, and spreading to the London Borough of Islington in 2009, Feltrooms now operates a cluster of buildings in and close to the City of London.
The unique environments that have been created also provide living accommodation to invited guests whilst simultaneously offering a platform and market place for local artists.
All of the works exhibited at Feltrooms living spaces are intended to be viewed and considered repeatedly over a protracted period, with a minimum residence of three days. Guests are invited to engage directly with the art and connect with the artists if they wish to enquire, complain or generally know more. 17-19 Lever Street, a former button and zip workshop, is the most recent addition to this network of spaces developed for the promotion of emerging art in London.
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m{us}e is the art club with an experiential edge. m{us}e events promote inter-disciplinarity and inter-action.
Launched in 2010 by M van Fullbroeck Associates with the aim to bring new audiences to contemporary art and to stimulate the mind and imagination of its members, the club programme is built in partnership with exclusive venues.
www.mvfassociates.com
