Clunie Reid
09 Sep - 19 Nov 2011
© Clunie Reid
Ever Ever, 2011
Marker pen, collage, inkjet print on silver bakced holographic paper, mounted on di bond
84 x 149 cm
Ever Ever, 2011
Marker pen, collage, inkjet print on silver bakced holographic paper, mounted on di bond
84 x 149 cm
CLUNIE REID
Cos The Body Goes In And Out
9 September - 19 November 2011
MOTINTERNATIONAL is pleased to open it’s new gallery space in Brussels with a solo exhibition by UK artist Clunie Reid. In what will be Reid’s 3rd show with the gallery, we present a new body of work made up of six large scale overdrawn and collaged holographic inkjet prints mounted on di bond.
For these spectacular new works Reid has experimented with photography and surface to create sumptuous illusionary depth. Her images have become stripped down, the text reduced to two or three words, her collage to a sticker or two. These are contemporary photographs at their most visceral. In wide-screen landscape aspect they project the physicality of the body as both present and virtual. These are single photographs taken of images from the screen, our new reality. Everything is there, the flash explodes, reflected and printed in negative, a black hole burning the surface, the noise of digital interface partially obliterates the image. Printed on holographic paper backed by silver the images hover above a visual depth. The light lenticular surface has a negative projection of a disc pattern grid, confusing the pixels of the digital space. Sitting on top and within the surface, Reid’s images of femininity hit us at different resolutions, from full frontal to abstracted representation, she tries to move beyond a subjective response to gender, preferring inappropriate identification. The reductive text she scrawls over the image becomes less subjective, an abstract address, definitive answers to unposed questions. Their lack of context in relation to each other and the image allows them to be more productive rather than closing down the space they operate in. With these works Reid hones her visual rhetoric to create a significant leap forward that builds upon her already highly original and intuitive vocabulary.
Clunie Reid lives and works in London, She has exhibited internationally at major institutions including Art Now, Tate Britain 2010; Free, New Museum, New York, 2010; Dumb Down, Get Dressed, Move Out, Studio Voltaire, London, 2010; Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2010; In the Event of Suspicion, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany, 2010; Karaoke - Photographic Quotes, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2009; Out There, Not Us, Focal Point, Southend, 2009 and Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, 2008. Her work is included in numerous important private collections as well as public collections, including Tate and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Clunie Reid is currently showing at MOTINTERNATIONAL BRUSSELS until November 12th.
Cos The Body Goes In And Out
9 September - 19 November 2011
MOTINTERNATIONAL is pleased to open it’s new gallery space in Brussels with a solo exhibition by UK artist Clunie Reid. In what will be Reid’s 3rd show with the gallery, we present a new body of work made up of six large scale overdrawn and collaged holographic inkjet prints mounted on di bond.
For these spectacular new works Reid has experimented with photography and surface to create sumptuous illusionary depth. Her images have become stripped down, the text reduced to two or three words, her collage to a sticker or two. These are contemporary photographs at their most visceral. In wide-screen landscape aspect they project the physicality of the body as both present and virtual. These are single photographs taken of images from the screen, our new reality. Everything is there, the flash explodes, reflected and printed in negative, a black hole burning the surface, the noise of digital interface partially obliterates the image. Printed on holographic paper backed by silver the images hover above a visual depth. The light lenticular surface has a negative projection of a disc pattern grid, confusing the pixels of the digital space. Sitting on top and within the surface, Reid’s images of femininity hit us at different resolutions, from full frontal to abstracted representation, she tries to move beyond a subjective response to gender, preferring inappropriate identification. The reductive text she scrawls over the image becomes less subjective, an abstract address, definitive answers to unposed questions. Their lack of context in relation to each other and the image allows them to be more productive rather than closing down the space they operate in. With these works Reid hones her visual rhetoric to create a significant leap forward that builds upon her already highly original and intuitive vocabulary.
Clunie Reid lives and works in London, She has exhibited internationally at major institutions including Art Now, Tate Britain 2010; Free, New Museum, New York, 2010; Dumb Down, Get Dressed, Move Out, Studio Voltaire, London, 2010; Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2010; In the Event of Suspicion, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany, 2010; Karaoke - Photographic Quotes, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2009; Out There, Not Us, Focal Point, Southend, 2009 and Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, 2008. Her work is included in numerous important private collections as well as public collections, including Tate and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Clunie Reid is currently showing at MOTINTERNATIONAL BRUSSELS until November 12th.