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g39: Show One Of Each: Maia Conran - 4 Feb 2011 to 12 Mar 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Show One Of Each: Maia Conran Preview Friday 4 February 2011 6.30-9pm Open Wednesday � Saturday 11-5:30 until 12 March 2011 The final installment of the Show One of Each season of exhibitions presents new work from artist Maia Conran. The film and other work for this show deals with spaces that are disquietingly empty of inhabitants. The libraries and classrooms are bare, the books unread, the seats unoccupied. These darkly minimal absences are leavened throughout by touches of humour. The empty library becomes home to animated footstools; the empty classrooms are recorded as pamphlets of remembered lessons - accurate accounts of room geography that map changes in modes. The dualities that she presents - inside/ outside, public/ private, alive/ dead, open/ closed, presence/ absence - become indistinct, she creates a forced disruption � a resistance to the speed and banality of daily life. Through the depiction of still moments, use of repetition and changes of pace she demonstrates a darkly humorous Beckettian concern with boredom as a paradoxical state in which the present can be questioned. Conran�s work centres around everyday objects and is developed from observation of daily situations. Her use of the everyday is influenced by popular cinema and fiction. The resultant pieces have an uncanny familiarity that, with her use of institutional systems and aesthetics, gently subverts established social practice. This show was curated by Michael Cousin Maia Conran (b. 1977, Bangor, Wales; lives and works in Bristol) studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and UWE, Bristol. Recent projects include a Studio Safle residency, a collaborative exhibition at Bristol Diving School and a solo exhibition at STATION, Bristol. www.maiaconran.com Since 2006 g39's Show One of Each series of solo exhibitions has featured some of Wales' most eminent emerging artists including Robinson and Bermingham, Mike Murray and Simon Holly. For more information about the exhibition, or to organise a group visit please contact Sam Perry t: +44 (0)29 2025 5541 e: [email protected] or for press quality images visit our website www.g39.org |
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