- Venue
- g39
- Starts
- Friday, August 20, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, September 25, 2010
- Address
- 39 Wyndham Arcade Mill Lane Cardiff
- Location
- Wales
G39 brings together new works by three artists who use common elements of observation, speculation and the re-enactment of events within a gallery context. For Bystanding, Lauren Jury, Will Woon and Mark Folds use different strategies to mediate and re-present us with a mixture of tragicomedy, empathy and hope. By making small physical changes to a place, Mark Folds, as he puts it, injects ‘a slight wobble into the everyday’. Sowing subtle visual seeds in and around public places he encourages us to look again, to re-think and re-engage with our environment. Lauren Elizabeth Jury has undertaken a photographic study of a roadside worker from Treherbert, Wales. ‘George’ was responsible for the appearance of the floral roadside decorations outside the “White House” workman’s hut, often amusing himself in quiet moments by creating flowers, windmills, miniature houses and animals from various materials for his ‘decorative garden’. Will Woon’s practice is peopled by miniature models like architectural maquettes or proposals for future sculptures. They involve podiums, lecterns or speeches or he presents buildings that are fragile and at points of precariousness or collapse. Like the subject of Lauren’s photographs, Woon builds a world in which his own creativity shapes the way we negotiate it and understand it as a place in which multiple narratives are allowed to play out.
