[node-l] My Place in Between, Artists Talk, ICA

[Emma Quinn]

My Place in Between, Artists Talk.
Institute of Contemporary Arts,
10 July 2008, 7pm
 
Free with day admission.
 
The artists Alys Williams and Nathalie Harb will talk about their
installation and how they envisage its development when it moves to
Beirut later this year. There will be a chance to talk to the artists
and ask questions about the work.
 
 
Exhibition 
3rd - 23rd July
Digital Studio, Free with day admission
 
My Place in Between is a multimedia installation that evolved from ideas
of their home cities, London and Beirut, and communicates an uneasiness
with the concept of home and its fragility. A storage space is created
with packed boxes and furniture left, either forgotten or ready to be
moved, by a central character. 
 
The viewer is invited to wander and investigate the space. Memories and
clues to past events are expressed through videos, models and texts
embedded in the furniture. The protagonist is created by overlapping
autobiographical references from the artists' lives, combined across a
single timeline. Important events from both lives, the departure of a
loved one, the beginning of a love story, the loss of a home, the dreams
of a child or the death of a mother, combine to generate a complex
narrative, raising questions on the concept of presence and absence,
duality and translocation.
 
The exhibition will move to Beirut in November 2008, where the artists
will build on its content and present the second stage of the work at
The Hangar of Umam D&R.
 
ICA,
The Mall,
London, SW1Y 5AH
tel: 020 7930 3647
 
Nearest tube stations: Piccadilly or Charing Cross
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