HELEN DOWLING
Original Remix
Helen Dowling, Burning Original Remix, 2015 – Video HD, 7.10 Minutes
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OPENING: Saturday, 27 June 2015 – h 18.30
29 June 2015 – 29 August 2015
NEW SPACE OPENING: Via Leida 6/A, 37135, Verona
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After one year of experimentation in the heart of the city fabric, Artericambi is back to practice monumental areas, confirming its spirit of renewal in the continuity. And to inaugurate the new exhibition space in the Zai area, a place immersed between industrial residuals and urban effervescence, Artericambi brings back to Verona one of the most promising video-artists in the international scene: Helen Dowling.
Original Remix brings together an eclectic body of work that represents the artists research into abstraction and the human capacity to be moved by images.
This exhibition presents a video installation “The Burning Time Slideshow” amongst a series of light sculptures made from neon flex. Produced by filling flexible plastic tubes with highly-luminous LED lights, neon flex is the purported replacement of the traditional Glass Neon. As creatures that draw attention, these abstract yet familiar forms act as entities that have manifested in the space.
The video “The Burning Time Slideshow” remixes footage filmed by the artist on a research trip to an island off Africa, found footage of unknown tourists exploring their surroundings through the lens of a camera and underwater clips filmed by the artists niece on the popular GoPro.
The sound, sourced separately and after the fact, comes from recordings of live music performances and environmental sounds that often become grammatical in their punctuation of the editing. Beautiful images are heightened and pulled further away from their initial appearance using colouring techniques such as inverting.
Other footage, typically gleaned whilst existing in a foreign country and extremely common to most people’s hard drives, is also changed in some way, whether through layering, sharp editing cuts or effects. Immersive and nearly banal, the video effects a sense of pathos towards the acquisition and reliving of casualness within contemporary amateur footage.
Elements of the video are reminiscent of old cinema – from bubble clouds that snag in the frame, particles and plankton in the water which remind of film grain, to abstracted lights shot from a moving car that resemble early animation. Common footage, common memories and common nostalgia all emphasize the importance of empathy in Dowling’s work.
Helen Dowling, Installation view “Original Remix”, 2015
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BIO
Helen Dowling (n. 1982, Regno Unito) lavora con una pratica multidisciplinare che ha la capacità di trasferire empatia ed emozioni all’interno del medium video. Piuttosto di lavorare con i racconti, i suoi video, le sue fotografie e gli oggetti giustappongono elementi di base come il ritmo, colore e suono attirando gli spettatori in una sequenza di sensazioni che si relazionano e si costruiscono l’una sopra l’altra.
Si è laureata al Goldsmiths College di Londra, conseguendo il master alla Slade School of Fine Art di Londra e vincendo 2 anni di residenza alla Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.
Le sue recenti mostre includono ‘Flesh of the World’, University of Toronto, ‘VISIO’, Villa Romana, ‘Euritmie’, The Castelvecchio Museum, Verona, ‘Open Studios’ Viafarini Artists in Residence, Milan, ‘Disabled by Normality’, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague e ‘l’evento immobile’, Casa Masaccio, Tuscany.
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Helen Dowling, Original Remix, 2015 – Video HD, 7.10 Minutes
Helen Dowling, Untitled, 2015 – Neon flex with perplex tubing, 19 x 12 inch
(SINISTRA) Helen Dowling, Untitled, 2015 – Neon flex with perplex tubing, 16 x 12 cm / (DESTRA) Helen Dowling, Untitled, 2015 – Neon flex with perplex tubing, 19 x 12 inch
Helen Dowling, Untitled, 2015 – Neon flex with perplex tubing, 19 x 43 inch