Syndicate: SODIUM BLINDNESS: exhibition information

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:34:27 +0000
From: Lisa Le Feuvre <lisa@photonet.org.uk>


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Sodium Blindness


Private View Thursday 3 February 2000 6.30pm - 9pm

Thursday - Sunday 11am - 6pm 5 - 24 February 2000

APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3EW

telephone 0171 250 1173

Sodium Blindness is a group exhibition of six female artists working
with video and photography whose work explores contemporary experiences
of the urban space at night.

Movement through city after dark is central to Sarah Conway?s video
work: a woman walks through unevenly lit empty London streets. This
everyday activity takes on a cinematic menace as the camera tracks her
route. Helen Couchman also takes the city streets as her focus: taking
the area surrounding the gallery space as her starting point, she
highlights our perceptions of a specific journey through the city
relating the journey to the APT Gallery.

Lynne Marsh?s video projection 'Calling' is being exhibited for the
first time in Sodium Blindness. Like her earlier work,
'Calling'continues to be concerned with an individual?s movement through
space. Referencing the powerful protagonists of video games, we confront
a
character who is in complete possession of the space around her. Shizuka
Yokomizo?s photographs also reveal a control and possession of nocturnal
space, but in her case the individuals are self assured within their own
domestic realm. The strangers? gaze returns that of the camera to create
a compelling series of surprisingly intimate portraits.

Claudine Hartzel explores this relationship between inside and
outside,but she is more concerned with glances into a space rather than
from a space. Her images are of both corporate and domestic interiors
that we might glimpse when moving through the city at night. Vicki
Wetherill?s
work likewise captures glimpses of an interior: over a year she
documented a single street in Paris? red light district. In her images
we see the alluring glamour of a number of establishments promising
nocturnal delights.

Sodium Blindness is organised by
Sarah Conway and Lisa Le Feuvre

For further information and press images
call 020 7250 1173
email lefeuvre@ndirect.co.uk


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