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Helen RobertsonEcho22 June - 27 July 2024 |
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Helen Robertson Film Still from
Thoroughfare 2020 |
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As a pure voice that refracts
another voice. Echo makes the musicality of language
sing.
Working with architecture and the choreographic Echo sets in motion a web of relations to women past and present, exploring ideas of agency and authorship as reciprocal and interdependent. On entering the gallery visitors step into the work becoming part of a choreography that unfolds across a sequence of rooms. Correspondences across filmed architectures and the gallery architecture are inflected by interrelated sculptural and architectural interventions giving rise to chains of iterations that extend conversations across past and present, interior and exterior, here and elsewhere. Echo brings together 5 films shot on video of or relating to works of architecture in which women have played an important (often unrecognised) role; this includes a film of Laura Martínez de Guereñu’s Re-enactment at the Barcelona Pavilion 2020 (that worked to bring recognition to architect Lilly Reich's design contribution); a choreography made for camera with two ballet dancers that responds to Lilly Reich and Mies van Der Rohe's Velvet and Silk Cafe and a moving image projection of a sculptural work by artist Liz Deschenes (Stereograph #36), which within the exhibition is part of a rumination on architect Lauretta Vinciarelli’s unrecognised work with Donald Judd in Marfa Texas. A leaflet featuring a commissioned essay by Professor Jane Rendell will be available during the exhibition and on this link. Click here to view the exhibition as a 3D Virtual Space Helen Robertson’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including Hayward Gallery London, Stadthaus Ulm Germany, Matt’s Gallery London, Arnolfini Gallery Bristol. Recent exhibitions include Hanging in the Balance Five Years London 2023, The Undersides of Practice APT gallery 2020, Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis Camberwell Space 2019, Come and go. Halt extreme left. Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art 2019, Drift Thames Side Studios Gallery, London 2019. Recent performances include its song a performance with dancer Antoinette Brooks Daw for Architectures in Air Brixton Library 2023, [these roarers] Whitstable Biennale 2018 (in collaboration with Lucy Gunning and Bernice Donszelmann), pine beech pine Architectural Association Hooke Park 2017. Helen Robertson is supported by Studio Wayne McGregor through the FreeSpace programme, by The Acme Jonathan Harvey Tenant Award in 2024 and Research at Central Saint Martins UAL. Jane Rendell
is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at the Bartlett
School of Architecture, UCL, where she co-initiated
and teaches on the MA Situated Practice, and on the
MA Architectural History. She supervises history, theory
and design PhDs in architecture, art, urbanism and experimental
writing.
Join us for the closing event of Echo on Saturday 7 September at 2pm. A performance, Turn and Return, with dancer Antoinette Brooks-Daw, choreographed by the artist will start promptly at 4pm. For more information please contact danielle@daniellearnaud.com Please note that on the final week of the exhibition the gallery will be open exceptionally from 11 to 6pm on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th, and from 2 to 6pm on Saturday 7th.
Indivisible (y)
2019 8:25 min credit: Serpentine Pavilion
2018 designed by Frida Escobedo
From left to right
My Fox River House Project
2022/24
From left to right
Sunward 2024
Thoroughfare 2020-24
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