Stella Brennan 'every room i have ever been in'
Stitching, gluing and threading, artist Stella Brennan attempts to fix what has been broken. Her new exhibition, every room i have ever been in mashes together homages to feminist artist Mary Kelly and the ceramic iconoclasm of Chinese art star Ai Weiwei with the decorative Japanese repair technique of kintsugi. Recession chic and the new domesticity promote preserving, mending and recycling amongst the virtuous middle classes with the time to lavish on sock darning and jam making. Sceptical of the glamour of distressed heirlooms, Brennan salvages a critique of the superabundance of objects vomited up by global capitalism from a welter of orphaned personal effects, lifestyle blogs, and magazines full of house porn.
Suzie Gorodi 'Finding my feet'
Finding my feet (made with periscope on the median of a flyover) is situated between idea of the camera lens as prosthesis, the body of the artist as author/subject/object, and the uncanny. The viewer is confronted with mirrored, split-screen, and yet 'realtime', unedited imagery within a tactics of lensing that plays with poetic constructions of spatiality.
The artist's body performs the lens through 'old school' prosthetic rigs and grips thus critiquing technological expertise. The video practice embraces the clunky, the deadpan, and the absurd, producing moving images – with flawed and grainy ineptitude – that, in turn, affect the bodies of the audience. This participatory note is further emphasised by the everyday activities performed with low-tech devices underpinning the practice.
Thursday 4 October
5.30pm opening
Exhibition runs from the 4th to the 27th of October.
Special thanks to Coopers and CNZ for their continued support.
