- Venue
- Untitled Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, April 22, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, June 5, 2011
- Address
- Untitled Gallery Friends Meeting House 6 Mount Street (Bootle Street Entrance) Manchester M2 5NS
- Location
- North West England
Ambitions Dream Nothing presents White Noise, a series of works produced from 2010 – 2011 by Manchester-based artist Jenny Core. In her current practice Core attempts to define empty space –what the artist refers to as the “impossible” – through experiments with chance and play. The WhiteNoise series centres around the artist’s idea that a radio is a portal into the dimension of empty space, where the “impossible” exists as a cacophony of white noise. Using the radio, the artist is able to enter this “impossible” void by selecting words at random when switching between channels, extracting thewhite noise as a vicissitude of unintelligible words and sounds produce short incoherent narratives, such as Ambitions Dream Nothing and Great Cup I Night Happiness. Conditioned by chance, these obscure narratives incorporate elements of play, resulting in works that are composed of various inanimate objects discovered by chance in the artist’s studio. Working on paper and discarded board, Core creates scenes to re-enact narratives such as Listen and Common Up (2010) using commonplace objects that were once functional, and manipulating them to suggest dysfunction. Through experiments with chance and play, Core constructs scenes that disrupt empty space, making the “impossible” possible.
