event

4-Mation

18.Jul.07
18.00-21.00

Vegas Gallery
MINI-VEGAS SPACE PROJECT 3 : 4-Mation
64-66 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DP
07726750762 / 02077294819
hello@vegasgallery.co.uk
www.vegasgallery.co.uk
Tube Liverpool Street, Old Street, Aldgate East, Shoreditch / Hoxton

“4mation” is an exhibition of work by four emerging artists for whom human presence represents a key
concern within their artistic practices. Combining diverse media such as photography, video and
installation, each artist takes a different approach to exploring the body as a fluid state, a fragment, a
means of communication and a disappearing and reappearing entity through its presence and absence in
the gallery space.

Samantha Mogelonsky is interested in exploring the relationship between the body, communication and
understanding, through the materiality of objects and forms; making her use of materials, scale, texture and light essential, as her works are often materially and process driven. Moreover, Samantha is also considering the function, history and format of text and languageas a crucial reference point for her practice. She is concerned by the isolation of the body within an emerging technological culture: mainly the lack of physical interaction between the individual and the more so-called nostalgic means of communication. Her work in this exhibition uses the body to address the physicality of language and the written word.

Lisa Flynn's practice extends performative gestures into film and video, exploring the body's potential for non-verbal communication. Lisa adopts a playfully satirical approach to exploring the concept of desire through confronting the signifiers imposed onto female sexuality by culture and society. In "Drawing Breath" and "Hystera" the female body maintains a menacing yet seductive presence. The video works shown at 4mation flirt with and arouse the viewer's curiosity, simultaneously building a tension that hovers between danger and sexual charge. Lisa's practice continues to respond to a body-obsessed society. She has more recently become inspired by the current high visibility of eating disorders in society, and how women have used control of appetite as a form of symbolic expression for centuries.

Paula Naughton's work deals