- Venue
- The Apartment gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, November 5, 2008
- Ends
- Friday, December 5, 2008
- Address
- 9 Palace Court, London W2 (ring bell 1)
- Location
- London
Un-still Life presents work by eight emerging artists around themes of domestic life. Domestic space hides its secrets under a thin layer of formica: home is a place of sweetness but also drudgery and conflict, dream and memory. These notions are explored through painting, photography, drawing, animation, collage, sculpture, as well as cooking performance and installation.With a slide projection of drawings, Holly Antrum takes us on an exploration of a childhood house. Maxfileld Bozeat’s food installation questions the boundary between domestic life and art. Photographer Beth Colocci pushes the boundaries of her medium with domestic images printed on fried eggs. Polly Gould’s pin-boards of secrets and memories also reference classical still-life painting. Valerie Jolly’s ethereal tissue paper sculptures are like the domestic objects’ souls trying to escape their everyday condition. Alli Sharma’s paintings uncover the powerful nostalgia of overlooked, kitsch artefacts. Constance Slaughter’s still lives are disrupted by male toys and imaginary heroes. Stephanie Quayle’s sculpture brings the outside into the home: it looks as if the fox just jumped in from nearby Kensington Gardens.
