Harold Offeh, Covers: After The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street, 1972 (3 Balls) 2013 c-print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London
Biopic
15 November – 21 December 2013
at Maria Stenfors, London
Opening: Thursday 14 November 2013, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Miguel Aguirre
Philip Newcombe
Harold Offeh
Curated by Nathan Jenkins
We receive it, we feel it, we embody it.
Receive, feel, embody.
The reading of an artwork is a multifaceted one, incorporating voluminous layers of referencing. In the percept of object, how intrinsic is the maker’s own life to our reading? Our reading rings true with empathy. We attach to biographical stories by our own experiences, our memory. The imagination is superb at filling in gaps, and functions through an anthropophagic alchemy of imagining and knowledge. Building on existing images; eating, digesting and assimilating them, to form a new hybridisation.
Biopic provides a critical analysis of the construction of character, biography and narrative. The ever incompleted character of being. Determined to break down the complexity of biography construction to its elements, it illustrates an economical narrative device. The exhibition brings together artists that question this fragile fabrication. [read the full text here]
Performance
“Covers: Playlist” by Harold Offeh
Wednesday 27 November 2013, 7pm
Covers, is an ongoing series of performances by Harold Offeh in which he attempts to transform a series of music album covers from the 70s & 80s into durational performances. The series has been developed through photographs, video and live performance. For Covers: Playlist, Offeh will enact a series of album covers accompanied by the tracks from the corresponding albums.
Maria Stenfors
Unit 10, 21 Wren Street,
London WC1X 0HF
mariastenfors.com
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday: 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Saturday: 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Or by appointment.
Philip Newcombe, Signal, 2012. needle, thread from the button that fell from your coat, dipped in perfume. 5 x 9cm. Image courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde Prehistoria, 2005. Animation transfered to DVD. 29 min 33 sec. Image courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London
Miguel Aguirre, Sophie Scholl, 2009. oil on paper. Image courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London