For Curate and Curtique I found artist Hannah Valentine and loved this little blurb about her work that I found on the Gow Langsford Gallery website. (http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2012/windowgallery/hannahvalentine.asp).
I used Hannah Valentine's work Haptic Prospect #3 in my Curate and Critique assignment because I love the simplicity of it, the fact that there is nothing that complicates any of the elements, everything is as it is, the elements are as they are in everyday life and in its simplicity it speaks of an action, it activates.
"Hannah Valentine’s practice is based around the body, movement and participation. She approaches the performative body in terms of physicality and exercise in relation to our urban environment. Her interest is in the potential of repetitive motion to translate into knowledge as well as the influence the vertical landscape has upon our alignment in space. Her work takes form primarily in object, performance and documentary style film. The body and lived experience are primary as digital media threatens to blur society's conceptions of reality."
Haptic Prospect #3
2011
Steel, wood, bolts, Gym Mats
3000 x 4000 x 1500 mm (approx)
Situations
2011
Teetering Stabilities
2011
Installation view, Auckland's BIG Little City Late Night Art
Snake Pit
The Beautiful Life: Potential, Denial, Grace
2011
Installation view, Elam Graduation Show
Photos from Gow Langsford Gallery (www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz)
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