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Installationview Matts Gallery London, 2011 53° 27' 46.67" N, 2° 59' 10.35" W. Points in a Cloud, 2010, duratrans, 3d laser scan, lightbox, app. 110 x 220 cm By Ours & The Wotk, Installationview Innsbrück, 2010 Installationview AKINCI Amsterdam, 2010 Barrabackslarrabang (still), 2009, HD 1920x1080 video, stereo, Engl./Backslang sp., 9'13" The Whisper Heard, Installationview Matts Gallery London 2006 I Hate, Installationview Dokumenta Kassel, 2006 Get Here, 2005, Digi-Betacam, 10.2 surround-sound
Installationview Matts Gallery London, 2011
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Imogen
Stidworthy (1963, Liverpool)
is
interested in language and the voice, which she works with as physical
and spatial material. An ongoing preoccupation in her work is with the
borders of language. She asks how we experience and conceive of a space
where words are unstable, run out, or fail, and what other forms of
understanding might emerge in the face of unreadability - in context,
for example, of neurological or emotional conditions, linguistic or
cultural differences.
Her
work is shown in
exhibitions internationally including Documenta 12 (Kassel, DE), 2007),
numerous group exhibitions, works in public space and solo exhibitions
(in 2010-11) at Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; The Arnolfini, Bristol;
AKINCI, Amsterdam and Matts Gallery London; (in 2006) Galerie Höhenlohe,
Vienna and (2003) at Matts Gallery, London. She has curated two
exhibitions addressing the borders of language through art works by many
artists, which were shown alongside her own work and other materials
such as musical notation and censored books; Die Lucky Bush at MuKHA,
Antwerp (2008) and In the First Circle, in collaboration with Paul
Domela, at Fundació Antoni Tapičs, Barcelona (2011-12). Stidworthy has
been shortlisted for several awards including the Jarman Award 2011,
Becks Futures 2004 and The Northern Art Prize 2008; in 2008 she won the
Liverpool Art Prize and in 1996, the Dutch Prix de Rome for Film and
Video. Her work is in public and private collections, among others
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon and M KHA,
Antwerp. It is distributed by LUX, London and Film and Video Umbrella,
and she is represented by Matts Gallery, London and AKINCI Amsterdam. |
