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| 1∞∞2
: one two infinity Claudia Pilsl : lens-based work 2002 – 6 25 March – 21 May 2006 |
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| Recent projects by Claudia Pilsl have almost exclusively
focused on specific buildings and in particular on art galleries and
museums. Bend in the River is currently looking at expanding into the vast Victorian church of St John the Divine in Gainsborough, and has commissioned Pilsl to work with the building in its current state – a redundant church and potential art space. The title of the exhibition, ‘1∞∞2 : one two infinity’, is a clever adjustment of the date St John’s opened, 1882. The three pieces she has made at St John’s (video, audio, photographs) will be juxtaposed in this exhibition with works made in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern (2002) and at the Schweitzer Garten, the park which surrounds the Museum des Zwanzigsten Jahrhundents, the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna (2005). All these works position people in relation to space in relation to architecture. In the 12-hour video loop, people move through the cavernous Turbine Hall. The man leaning on the tree in the Schweitzer Garten is positioned between the closed modernist museum and its softened reflection. Footsteps in the dissynchronised St John’s video inhabit a space which is both present and historical. Currently based in Bristol, Claudia Pilsl graduated in 1994 and has worked throughout Europe. Exhibitions include: ‘For the Time Being: a Promise of Progress’, Victoria Baths (winner of BBC’s ‘Restoration’ programme), Manchester (group, 2004); ‘Space Encounters’, Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (solo, 2002); ‘Liminal/Minimal/Nominal: Architectural Traces’, Gallery Westland Place, London and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (group, 2001). |
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