Event overview
Katrina Palmer's work combines writing, installed audio recording and live performance, relocating sculpture within shifting, capricious worlds and fictional spaces. Her book The Dark Object presents sculpture’s awkward relationship with conceptualism through the pseudo-conceptual ideology of a fictional institution: the sole student, increasingly isolated in The School of Sculpture Without Objects and battling with institutional directives and solitary confinement, exercises the prohibition on making things by writing stories. These narrate a series of power relations through explicit encounters with texts, objects and authorial figures, including Slavoj Žižek as a cipher for fantasies and the Rector, a scrofulous, paranoid lech.
In The Pretender, two characters occupy parallel spaces and encounter a series of unstable objects, including a three-stringed electric guitar. The male protagonist is situated in an alcove. As a critical speculation on sculpture, he repeatedly questions the contingency of language and the perception of objects. The female protagonist stands on her window ledge, contemplating her options and the structural particularities of the fabric of her home.
Katrina Palmer (b.1967) lives and works in London. She was recently awarded the 2013 Artangel Open Commission, for a new project which will excavate an undisclosed place in England through writing and installation. ??Additional forthcoming projects include a new commission for the 2014 Whitstable Biennale and her next book, The Fabricator’s Tale, to be published by Book Works in 2014. Previous exhibitions include Reality Flickers, MOTINTERNATIONAL, London (solo: 2013), 21st Century, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo: 2013); From Morn ‘Til Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin (2013); Orpheus Twice, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2013); The Weight of Living, MOTINTERNATIONAL, London (2012); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2011).
Dates & times
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| 26 Feb 2014 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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