Charlotte Moth
remade
13/02-03/04/2010
opening Saturday, Feb 13, 6-9 pm
Portrait de l'artistePhoto: Aurélien Mole
Direction artistique: Marcelle Alix
Perhaps we should think of Charlotte Moth as someone who introduces the work to the beholder—like the figure of the admonisher in classical painting. Consider, then, a character located at the very edge of the canvas, straddling two different spaces: that of the beholder and that of the image. She looks out at and calls to the beholder, presenting him or her, not with a stable object, but with a situation that invites them to consider the work as unfolding in its entirety, backtracking to its beginnings, skipping forward to how it is reread and discussed.
<>The sequined curtain
The first curtain was made in the Schaufenster project space in
Düsseldorf in March 2009 with the idea of the frame in mind. The space
of the Schaufenster is a former display window. This situation made me
think about what it meant to see something from just one side. About how
something could work with a sense of surface that was both visible,
(the back wall) and see-through, but tangible (the pane of glass). I
was reminded of a quote by Alighiero e Boetti, ‘Behind every surface
is a mystery: a hand that might emerge, an image that might be
kindled, or a structure that might reveal its image’. I liked the
tautological possibilities of this quote. The window became a
situation to create an image. When the sequined curtain was installed
in the project space I took a black and white photograph of it. To be
interested in the materiality of the image, its potential, meant
questioning the source of the image, the experience that generates it.
To make this work once was not enough. It develops through its
transferability and displacement. Using consistent materials, I
confront immovability through looking to make something unique to a
place, site. In this sense ‘remade’ is exactly what it is and what it
is not, it becomes a contradiction of terms through a mechanism of
displacement.
<>The Travelogue (a personal collection of analogue images)
The 'Travelogue' is a constant through being an accumulation of
analogue images that reflect my changing experiences of being in
places. It looks at Modernist architecture, but is more a study of
architectural spaces in the widest sense. I think of recent places
that I have photographed, the Bauhaus in Dessau, a house in Bleckede,
Germany, the hotel on the Isle of White that had an interior like the
Guggenheim Museum, Aby Warburg’s house in Hamburg, the shoe rack of an
ancient temple in Japan. Time spent taking these photographs has
enabled links between historical categories to develop and blur, in
this sense the 'Travelogue' is an organic thought process, a collage. An
activity that uncovers the to-ing and fro-ing of image and experience.
Charlotte Moth, February 2010
Charlotte Moth was born in Carshalton (UK) in 1978, and has been living in Paris since 2007. Her recent solo presentations (2008/09) include the Schaufenster of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, FormContent, London, and Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart. Recent residencies include Schloss Bleckede, Germany 2009, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 2009 and Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2008. Her solo show at Bloomberg Space, London is on view until Feb. 20. www.bloombergspace.com Forthcoming shows include a solo exhibition at the Halle fur Kunst Lüneburg, Germany, Sept 2010.
Special thanks to: Maeve Connolly, Sadie Murdoch, Le Pavillon du Palais de Tokyo, Mickaël Vivier, Falke Pisano and Peter Fillingham.
Also in Belleville on Feb 13: presentation of Back Cover nº3 at the Section 7 books bookshop, 65 rue Rébeval. www.castillocorrales.fr
