PROJECTS is a series of exhibitions within the Contemporary Art Society space at 59 Central Street that transform and use the architecture of the building, drawing into focus questions around modes of display and the encounter between contemporary art and architecture. PROJECTS is open Tuesday – Friday, 11.00 – 17.00.
For Project 08 Clunie Reid presents a new video and a photo-work designed to be integrated into the fabric of the Contemporary Art Society headquarters. Both works continue her exploration of digital image montage within video editing software. In this new work The Given that keeps on Givin’, Reid splices staged image references to Marcel Duchamp’s Étant Donnés, (1946-1966) and The Large Glass (1915-1923) with other digital image materials in bursts of text and image.
Reid contemplates the latent content within Duchamp’s formalist work, layering new connotations by cutting in explicit imagery sourced from popular culture today. Words and phrases appear in varyingly scrambled sentence order before disintegrating into a “trash polemic” that reflects the complexities of digital image culture.
The show also features twenty-four photo-works which have been mounted on perspex and individually reworked with silver ink. Each photograph has been extracted from the video and acts as an extension of the original work.
The Given That Keeps on Givin’, 2014
HD video, 10minutes 16 seconds, edition of 3
The Given That Keeps on Givin’, 2014
21 x 30cm, 24 pieces, unique
Biography
Clunie Reid, born 1971, lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Art (1992) and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (1995). Recent exhibitions include: In Pursuit of the Liquid, MOTINTERNATIONAL, London (2013); ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London Subculture 1980s to Now, The Old Selfridge Hotel, London (2013); Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, London (2013); Black Light, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Clunie Reid – Hannah Perry, Arcadia_Missa, London (2012); Art Now, Tate
Britain, London (2010) and Free, New Museum, New York (2010). In 2009, she was the John Jones Prize Winner at the Zoo Art Fair. Reid is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s and is represented by MOTINTERNATIONAL, London.