- Venue
- Cooper Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, January 20, 2012
- Ends
- Saturday, February 18, 2012
- Address
- DJCAD 13 Perth Road Dundee DD1 4HT
- Location
- Scotland
Preview: 19 January 2012, 6 – 8pm Performance: 19 January 2012, 7-7:30pm The work of New York based German artist Viola Yeşiltaç explores the displacements that operate between photography, drawing, sculpture and performance. Drawing attention to the materiality of artworks Yeşiltaç’s work considers how “the fictional world leaks and leaves a stain in the physically present world”. With an MFA in Photography from the Royal College of Art (London) and a prominent track record of making performance, Yeşiltaç pinpoints time as the crucial factor charging her practice. Reproducing and re-presenting photographs of a defunct signage factory, domestic settings and interior design in drawing, sculpture, performance and photography, Yeşiltaç reveals a transition from fiction to a representation of reality. The title of Yeşiltaç’s major solo exhibition in Scotland I Really Must Congratulate You on Your Attentionto Detail is cited from the UK television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In this performed fiction the actor Jeremy Brett exists, within the frame of the recorded image, as a perpetual avatar of Holmes. Shrouded by the fictional Holmes the material reality of the actor is superseded by the medium of the moving image. It is in this relationship between the ‘real’ and the ‘fictional’, and the displacements that occur between them, that Yeşiltaç’s exhibition is grounded.
