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g39: Jackie Chettur - 28 Mar 2009 to 3 May 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Jackie Chettur : 310 G39 presents a body of new work by prolific British artist Jackie Chettur, the third artist in our solo season which showcases the work of emerging artists throughout the region. While Jackie often works in a site-specific response, �310� is subtly different: the works had their genesis during the artist�s employment in a hotel that overlooks the gallery. It is an archetypal city hotel, corporate but scattered with �personal touches� to make the traveller feel at home. Chettur�s photographs take�inspiration from both the frustrations and banality of everyday life and the daydreams that inevitably result from this stasis. The backdrop is a business hotel, an international chain with modular rooms and an air of comfort and style. The personal touches in room 310 � a flower in a vase, a chocolate on a pillow or a neatly folded loo roll � exist in every room. Chettur has created a �Technicolor� intervention in this room, creating props and placing them into this �colourless� environment. The rooms become filmic sets and the furniture theatrical props as she makes these interventions to camera. She combines recent personal experiences of cleaning hotel bedrooms with a desire to elevate the everyday to something more extraordinary. Like a Powell and Pressburger dream sequence, the normality of the world in Jackie�s work is momentarily superceded by an extraordinary event. Two realities exist simultaneously. At the dawn of Technicolor, this pioneering process used two reels of film shot simultaneously through red and green filters and spliced together to produce the illusion of colour from otherwise black and white film, and this is close to Chettur�s ambition in this work. The notion of the cinematic is often instrumental in this process of elevation, and Chettur refers to Salman Rushdie�s description of �The Wizard of OZ�: �In its most potent emotional moment, this is unarguably a film about the joys of going away, of leaving the greyness and entering the colour, of making a new life in a place where there isn�t any trouble.� Working across many disciplines, Jackie takes an archetypal image, object, or film as a starting point, and then explores ideas predominantly bound up with memory and cultural recognition. It is this play between creating something sincere and emotionally resonant � even though largely based on second-hand experience � that is the really innovative area of this work. Pieces often tap into a collective sense of nostalgia, the desire to remember things or times that have passed. Chettur fuses two worlds; she takes the randomness of the everyday and the messy reality of here and now and offers us an escape into the freedom that daydreams allow in an unashamedly nostalgic matin�e-reverie of silk and roses. For more information about the exhibition, or for images please contact Chris Brown t: +44 (0)29 2025 5541 e: [email protected] or visit our website www.g39.org |
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