exhibition

MINI-VEGAS SPACE PROJECT 3 : 4-Mation

19.Jul.07 - 22.Jul.07
all days 12.00-18.00

Private View, 18.Jul.07, 18.00-21.00

Vegas Gallery
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 with the connection between architectural space and its relationship with
people. She focuses on the idea that every building is a hub of memories, which turn an architectural
construction into an emotionally connected space. Paula explores architectural spaces through the use of the camera lens by digging into specific locations and focusing on individual memories through lived space. This exploration causes a personal emotional engagement with the space. This documents a social loss and records moments of regional locational memory and displacement. It is this human presence and absence that is explored in her practise. Paula creates installations to re-create the spatial
explorations; creating intimate moments of reverie with the viewer.

Bethany Murray’s work is concerned with the performative within photography. Coming from a back- ground in performance, she uses this experience in her working with the staged photograph. Her process
includes role-play in set frameworks often using herself as performer. The result is a moving through
boundaries between photographer and performer and a reworking of the gaze. Her work aims to find a way of looking at images in a fluid way rather than trying to fix down their meaning. The viewer is always faced with their own perception of imagined narratives in what they see.