| Exhibitions | Past Simon Faithfull Psychotopography 23 March - 12 May 2002 This exhibition brings together new and recent work by Simon Faithfull. The exhibition includes a new work Orbital No.1, developed as part of ArtSway's NavyGate residency programme funded through the Regional Arts Lottery programme by Southern Arts. Orbital No 1, a new video work, brings together three circular journeys around London – the M25 motorway, the North and South Circulars and London Underground’s Circle Line. Like an illustration from Dante’s Inferno, the piece describes three infinite concentric journeys brought together in a single circular screen. Also included in the exhibition are three recent works which investigate the mental maps we make to interpret space: In Going Nowhere, 1998, a figure slowly disappears over a hill as it walks through drifting snow. Like an out of body experience, the camera left behind on its tripod, records the figures departure, absence and eventual reappearance. Map, 1999, is literally a simple, line-drawn map but one which seems to describe a parrallel universe. The outlines are familiar and yet the countries and seas are alien. In this map the world has been turned on its head. What was water has become land; what was land has become water. What should be a tool to interpret the world has become untrustworthy; what was familiar is now skewd and strange. Lee Navigation, 1999, again records a journey - traveling from the mouth of the River Lee where it meets the Thames in East London, to its source beneath a tower block in Luton, a series of Palm Pilot drawings reconfigure this strange urban non-space, recording isolated fragments of skyline, objects and signs found in this bizarre and banal landscape. Faithfull recently exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in the exhibition Temporary Accomodation. He leads the artist web site e-2 which receives funding from the Arts Council of England to develop new work by contemporary artists on the internet. Simon Faithfull was in residence at ArtSway during February 2002 when he developed Orbital No.1 for the exhibition as well as leading workshops with local groups. A dual format CD-Rom catalogue with text by Sally O'Reilly is available from ArtSway. You can visit Simon Faithfull's own website at www.simonfaithfull.org for additional information. Simon Faithfull: Screenworks 1996 - 2002. An ArtSway CD-Rom publication. Click here to view images from the exhibition Click here to return to Past Exhibition menu. |