Jane Hughes
Imagining Other Worlds
4.2 – 25.02.2012
Avajaiset/Opening: pe/Fri 3.2. 18–21
w/ Dj Jonna (sähkötyyny / bassoradio)
XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22 ,00100 Helsinki
‘The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.’
The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime.
This exhibition has kindly been supported by Culture Ireland.
Installation detail: film still, 2011, 1 min projection loop shown on screen inside blue barrel
Installation detail: film still, 2011, 3 min projection loop
Installation detail: projection on of a branch floating in a large trash container full of oily black water filmed by moonlight
Visitor leaving the installation
Installation detail: “cavity” short film on loop.
It was displayed on a screen inside an old oil barrel depicting images of Grunewald forests in the distance filmed from inside Teuffelsberg abandoned spy station, Berlin, with sound recorded live from musician Celeste Cleason.
Installation detail: screen inside barrel depicting 1 min loop of close up of building sites structures
Event: Live improv with Olimpia Splendid.
Audience entering space
Event: Live improv with Olimpia Splendid
Audience sitting in space
Event: youth group discussion inside installation
