Exhibitions

I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU

ASU Art Museum Moving Target initiative

Arizona State University Art Museum
Sept. 19 - Dec. 12, 2009

Premiered in fall of 2008 as a single channel video project space 

Charlotte Ginsborg

Charlotte Ginsborg
Stretching Out Flat on the Mattress He Fell Asleep Instantly, 2005
Courtesy of the artist

In the artist’s own words:
Stretching out flat
Stretching out flat depicts a complex narrative that parallels political aggression with a personal sense of social phobia. The film on some levels operates within the world of cinema and television drama, yet simultaneously drops important established visual and textual elements of narrative structure, to expose the script as read, its visual accompaniment as composed and contrived. Strangely, the effect of this is to authenticate the story, to confirm its validity and its focus on very human action and sociological gesture. The work’s basic premise - a personalised tussle with photographic media – proposes a doubling and a loss of identity in opposition to mass political protest, an almost documentary exposé of social helplessness in the face of the small afflictions of everyday life.

About the artist:
Charlotte Ginsborg currently lives and works in London. In 1998 she graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with a BA Honors in Fine Arts and went on to receive an MA from Goldsmiths College, London University in 2002. Ginsborg’s work recently has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at: Intrappolati nello Specchio, Spazio Pubblico Arte Contemporanea, Villa di Toppo Florio, Udine, Italy; Lux Salon, Lux, London; Charlotte Ginsborg, Jerwood Space, London. Recent select group exhibitions include: Worlds On Video, Strozzina, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea a Firenze, Italy (curated by Anita Becker); Recontres International, Pomidou Centre, Paris; Women with Vision, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Architecture Play, Berchidda, Sardinia, Italy; Just World Order, ArtSway, New Forrest, UK; Art with Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester, UK; Eroi Come Noi….?, Palazzo delle arti Napoli, Naples, Italy; Europe Asia Mediations, Poznan, Poland; Whitechapel Project Space, London; Voice Over, Serpentine Gallery, London; Perspective 2005, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Infrastructure, Studio Voltaire, London; Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Video. IT, Careof Gallery, Milan, Italy; Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London; Weimar Kunstfest, Neues Schloss Ettersberg, Weimar, Germany; Radar, Extra 50, Venice Biennale, Italy; Mostyn 13, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK; Tales, New video art from London, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Notably, Pump House Gallery, London; All Back to Mine, Deptford X Arts Festival, London. In 2008/09 the artist will be the Vital Arts artist-in–residence and in 2007 received individual artist grants from the Arts Council England Grant for Individual Artist as well as Film Makers Festival Fund.

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