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Where: Design-Zavod Flacon
When: 23 October - 29 October 2009
Opening: Thursday 22 October, 7 - 10 pm
Jos Boys works with writing, photography, installation and new media.
Her background is in architecture and urbanism, and has included stints as a journalist, designer, researcher and community activist. Jos's work explores the similarities and differences in how we articulate, contest, manipulate and transform our conceptual, material and social landscapes. She has a particular interest in using variety of media to open up discursive spaces across different perspectives on the world. Jos Boys studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and has an MA in photography from De Montfort University. For this exhibition, Jos is making site-specific work using photography and mixed-media, titled What am I doing here?
A driving force of Bell Gonczarow's practice is a fascination with light, particularly our relationship with the sun and our emotional responses to how its light passes over the earth. The artist uses the mediums of digital photography and video to document and re-present the transformative power of light in a particular situation, or in relation to a particular object, drawing attention to a particular moment in time and space.
Her works explore the meaning that can be generated by the juxtaposition of concepts such as minute/massive, personal/universal, fleeting/permanent, truth/illusion and fact/fiction, and how the relationship between the physical and digital can be used to communicate these ideas.
Leanne Bell Gonczarow graduated from the MA Book Arts course at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007 and was subsequently selected for the exhibition Future Map 07 – a showcase of the best work from graduating postgraduate students from across the six colleges of University of the Arts London. For this exhibition, Bell Gonczarow will present a new site-specific video piece filmed in the Flacon factory over the last month.
Gonczarow's work is currently focused on the examination and manipulation of the various representations and manifestations of political symbolism in popular culture. In order to make sense of his fascination and even obsession in collecting images and paraphernalia relating to this subject, Ian is looking at ways in which to re-present these images in a way that excites both the artist, and potential audience, and stirs debate about the arbitrary consumption of such potent imagery.
Ian Gonczarow is a recent graduate of the MFA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths College, London. For Transitions Gonczarow intends to create a sound and light piece titled Moscow Calling.
Current works include the study of mans interaction with the landscape and continue to explore Simmons' interests in the re-interpretation and re-contextualisation of both self generated and re-used imagery. Common to these works is the scrupulous investigation of source imagery and the subsequent amplification of areas through excessive yet diligent magnification in order to engineer and reconfigure narrative and meaning within the resulting scenes.
Transitions is the first exhibition curated by Natalia Schiptsova for "The Most Project", an initiative which aims to expose Russian and British contemporary artists to the wider audience.
A private view will be held on 22d October 2009, at the Flacon Factory, 36/4 Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya, Moscow, 127015.
Partners: Design-Zavod Flacon, British Higher School of Art & Design, British Council, OpenSpace.ru.
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