- Venue
- Transition Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, September 3, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, September 27, 2009
- Address
- Unit 25a Regent Studios 8 Andrews Road London E8 4QN
- Location
- London
Transition is pleased to announce that Paul Kindersley has won the Transition Gallery Prize inaugural show. Kindersley’s multifaceted work is situated in the cultural interface between viewer and film moment. Drawing on camp, nostalgia and the extremities of exploitation movies of the 1960s and 70s, his starting references explore the exaggerated filmic concepts and emotions of tragedy, eroticism, melodrama, violence and the tacky. His installations or ‘sets’ include constellations of found objects and images, arranged and filtered through convoluted and esoteric amalgams of histories and personal experiences. Large-scale photocopies and immediate environments of available objects act as clues in an unknowable hyper-drama. The objects function as ‘props’, which Kindersley also describes as ‘gifts to the filmic moment’. She wanted his soul, but he could only give her his blood is a new work specially made for Transition. It references sexy1970s vampire movies in a form of shrine to stolen film memories and real life encounters with the cult German actor Udo Kier. In a charged environment formed from sounds, looks and props from Kier’s films, the viewer becomes the vampire with the film as the ultimately doomed, but struggling to keep alive, victim.
