TRISHA BAGA – ROCK

Posted on 2012-04-09

Named after the historical Pilgrim landing site in Massachusetts, the video installation Plymouth Rock sees Baga attempting to sympathise with it as a body that has been broken up. She considers how this degradation has happened both physically, as it has traveled, but also in terms of its subjection to layers of human meaning over time. The work consists of a video projected on to a collection of paintings and objects in close proximity to one another. Conveyed through various mediums, the piece will also feature other antagonists such as voice, the sea, lines and colours. Like the act of looking, the video becomes potential body, or carrier, for these disparate elements and forces.Here Baga looks at how the 3D projection on top of the objects works to negate their real objecthood whilst the representation of the cardboard box above them only appears more monumental.

Exhibition runs through to May 20th, 2012

Vilma Gold
Minerva Street
E2 9EH
London

www.vilmagold.com

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TAKASHI ISHIDA

Posted on 2012-04-09

This work documents a painting being created on the wall and floor of a room. The documented painting, however, is just one out of many that could have been produced. In this sense, the aggregate of everything that was not documented could just as well be the work. Indeed every time I released the shutter, I felt as though I was simultaneously photographing another line in addition to the one I had just drawn and captured. Perhaps because I was shooting the room from multiple angles, slightly different rooms seemed to branch off into many more different spaces. When continually considering how one might go outside the room, I remembered what Wittgenstein said about the man who is imprisoned in a room because he does not notice the unlocked door behind him.

The exhibition will feature new 16mm film works and a stop motion animation video, which was produced by shooting a white wall built in the artist’s studio for the work and painted continuously, over several months. Ishida explains that he thought of Wittgenstein, Zen, and Yosa Buson’s haiku, which begins with an absent bridge, while producing the new works.

Exhibition runs through to April 28th, 2012

Taka Ishii Gallery
1-3-2-5F Kiyosumi
Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0024

www.takaishiigallery.com

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FARRAH KARAPETIAN – REPRESENTATION3

Posted on 2012-04-09

The images Karapetian mines reflect moments in our lived history at which overwhelming circumstances place the human character at the heart of a tragi-comic narrative. In the elaborate staging and exhibition of these prints, the artist returns to the position of the photograph as an a-factual object: color, markmaking, and time spent are revealed as the products of both choice and chance here, and the print itself is what one sees first, rather than its subject. The time it takes to expose each print – sometimes doubly or triply – is registered in the image, pushing the work into the conceptual place occupied by motion pictures.

Representation implies and includes abstraction: Karapetian’s work, though largely figurative, includes hints as to the codes of its own making and to the ideological codes of the mass-media as well. The pictures reveal iconic representational tendencies in contemporary photography and graphic design, which are employed to describe events with extra-experiential drama and clarity. By working with hyperanalogue processes and at the scale of everyday life, the artist shows us that re-representation offers the possibility of deeper, slower experience of potent moments in our lived history than is afforded by the fleeting jpeg disseminated online.

Opposite – Riot Police, 2011

Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2012

Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA
90232

www.robertsandtilton.com

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