Re:
Presentations of Everyday Life
Exhibition dates: 17 Jan - 15 Feb 04
For
their third exhibition at The Approach, Inventory present six recent video
works. Video has always been one facet of their multimedia approach to
examining and transforming the contents of societal phenomena; video making
as admixtures of mythological surveyor, psychological cartographer, silent
empathic observer, melancholic ethnographer and passionate enthusiast.
The
video¹s include; Flesh and Stone, a poetic lament on the constraints
of urban existence, filmed in London in the Summer 2003. Still Life on
The South Bank¹ observes two statue performers who momentarily interrupt
the tourist spectacle by having a fag break, returning to their frozen
stance at the chime of Big Ben. The Absence of Myth traces the mapping
of heroic Greek names onto London street signs and everyday commercial
products.
In
Ostalgia (meaning nostalgia for the goods, symbols and culture of the
former East Germany) an old man in Prohlis, Dresden heart renchingly and
painstakingly cleans his Trabant, motor car, whilst Thunderball documents
American drag racers in Essex involved in the excessive pursuit of burning
rubber.
Sleepwalkers,
is an account of Inventorys visit to a British Americana festival in Newark,
Nottinghamshire in which they set out to investigate whether there really
is a special relationship between Britain and America.
The
Gallery is open Wednesday Sunday, 12 6pm or by appointment
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