Open Gallery present work across the site of 'How The Light Gets In' Festival at Hay 2012, including the premiere of Roz Mortimer's first series for the gallery.
Shortlisted for The Open Prize for Video Painting 2011, Roz Mortimer’s Series 'Sites of Memory' comes out of a larger body of work exploring notions of landscape, memory and forgetting. In these works it is the tension between the history of each place and the indexical link the artist has standing at each site that is of interest. The landscapes, epic or banal, take on the memory of past peoples and past events: battlefields, shipwrecks, ghost towns, massacres, concentration camps, sacred lands, earthquakes, abandoned homes.
Each place is rich in history and imbued with memory of people and cultures, yet many of these portraits illustrate the forgotten, where societies have chosen not to memorialize events or to present alternate or romanticised versions of history. Sites of Memory was created during 2011 and 2012 in the American West, Central Europe and the UK.
Roz Mortimer is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London. Her work has been widely shown around the world at film festivals, galleries, cinemas, on television and online, and has been supported by Arts Council England, British Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Animate, Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network and Channel 4. Film and video works include The Flayed Horse, Passages, Invisible, Tales from the Arctic Circle, Safety Tips For Kids, Gender Trouble, Dog of My Dreams, Neverland, Airshow, Wormcharmer, Bloodsports for Girls.
Also showing…
'Underground' is a five hour Series of thirty nine video paintings consisting of works shot between 2006 and 2011. 'Underground' takes us into the dark where there is excitement alongside fear, sexuality alongside emptiness. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the 'Underground' series has a large number of urban pieces and these video paintings explore the city labyrinth, its human contents, and their desires. These are combined with darker more challenging material from the natural world.
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