Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery - Wednesday 20 January to Saturday 27 February
Guestroom
Flávia Müller Medeiros
Caroline Wright
Plus offsite projects:
- Museum of Exhibitions
- Gao Ming Yen
This exhibition focuses on the work of three artists that involve the process of reading and writing.
The act of writing is central to Caroline Wright's work. She uses postcards as a tool for communication to forge bonds between residents in a new housing development. Another work references the history of the Market Cross as a platform for preaching in Medieval times: a six hour performance of continuously hand-copying the Ten Commandments broadcasts the sound of the pen across the marketplace.
Flávia Müller Medeiros will be exhibiting her self-published books alongside two multi-disciplinary works-in-progress which are evolving into books. Two bespoke shelves containing vintage index-like catalogues from Gimpel Fils Gallery and the in-depth One Work series by Afterall. These point to the changing approaches to art books as well as being an influence on Müller Medeiros' practice.
The nature of collecting is revealed in the video works by Artist duo, Guestroom, aka Ruth Höflich and Maria Benjamin. The Librarians is a series of interviews talking about personal collections of books by their owners. Reading Room by contrast are examinations of individual pieces of text and is a growing video library of readings recorded in different contexts.
The Library of Influential Reads has been created by Curator, Catherine Hemelryk, inviting visitors to curl up with a good book in the cold winter months. The titles have been suggested by a wide range of people as books that have been the most influential in their lives.
OFFSITE:
The Museum of Exhibitions is a project by Kaavous Clayton. The trailer of exhibition catalogues will sit in different locations across the region.
A section of the Lawson Park Library by Guestroom will come to Suffolk. Their redesign of the Grizedale Library allows it to have transportable sections. One will be shown in the Gallery and the other will rove Suffolk, from beach to bus stop, canteen to ballroom.
Gao Ming Yen is a Chinese artist who uses the pages of books in languages he does not understand to create three dimensional scenes, translating them into a universally understood pictoral language. These can be seen at a bookshop where the word is traded: Waterstone’s in the Butter Market, Bury St Edmunds.
Join in the online storytelling #hashtagnarrative, for more information check www.twitter.com/BStENarrative.
In addition there will be various ad hoc events, readings, and collaborative performances in the Gallery, online and in eclectic spaces across the region. If you or a group would like to be involved please contact the Gallery at enquiries@burystedmundsartgallery.org.
For more details vist the Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery website.
This exhibition is supported by Waterstone’s, Afterall, Gimpel Fils and Churchgate Books.
