AUDREY SALMON
Clotted Bodies in Paradise Catalogue
AUDREY SALMON
Clotted Bodies in Paradise 08.07.2017 – 26.08.2017
The first solo presentation of Audrey Salmon with ROOM focuses on the effects and aftermath of the transition from the Industrial to the Digital Era, a world filled with electronics and multiple (continuous) connections. The exhibition consists of multimedia installations, text, sound and performance based elements. The era we live in creates the illusion of a fast moving, all-knowing and an almost omnipresent understanding of the world. A world that has been summarized into a sort of mono-aesthetic of what our desire, emotion, knowledge should be on a global scale. Reality seems to have been reduced into a few pixels, emoticons or memes. This being the lure, the best bait for catching happiness pretending to guaranty the sensational in the size of a snapshot. In these terms and conditions, the future is likely to last forever. Through visual, audio, writing, borrowed text, multi-media installation and displaced elements, Clotted Bodies In Paradise is addressing the condition of human connectivity of the early XXIst Century with its frustration, paradox and pleasure, re-representing and re-restaging both body and time. The exhibition presents an almost endless and reassuring cultural space of exchange - influenced and mediated by pop culture, social media, advertising, massmedia and the internet - where fantasy, hope and ideal seem to take place organically and freely. Salmon investigates what she calls the mono-hegemonic-aesthetic of Paradise on Earth that reigns over instant digital and virtual entertainment. The work states the urge of re-taking possession of time and images to maybe extract the essence of what dream / utopia one could imagine.
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise Anthropic Units Of Length And Time, 2017, Mixed Media Video Installation Duration 2’’52, Edition of 2+ 1 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise Mechanic Tangible Moves, 2017, 3 automats, composed of weights, Perspex, mechanism, feathers, Size?? Ed. of 5 + 1 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise You Have Been Successfully Somatically Transferred, 2015, plaster and real human hair in a box frame, 24,5 x 50 cm Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise All Is About Chemistry, 2017, Digital Video, Duration 1�00
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise Special Thanks To, 2015, Mixed media installation Ed. of 2 +1AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise (installation view)
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise On The Virgin Island of Deserted Knowledge, 2017, screen print on Fabriano Paper, Paper size: 70,5 x 100 cm Ed. of 3+2 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise Paradox Makes Me High , 2017, screen print on Fabriano Paper, Paper size: 70,5 x 100 cm Ed. of 3+2 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise Palm and Foot Stretch Again, 2017, Mass produced beach towel Ed. of 2 +1AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise I Wish You Were Here I - IV, 2017, digital paintings printed on bricks, 20 x 10 cm Ed. of 7
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise I Wish You Were Here V - VIII, 2017, digital paintings printed on bricks, 20 x 10 cm Ed. of 7
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise I Wish You Were Here (installation view), 2017, digital paintings printed on bricks, 20 x 10 cm Ed. of 7
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise I Wish You Were Here IX - XII, 2017, digital paintings printed on bricks, 20 x 10 cm Ed. of 7
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise I Wish You Were Here XIII - XVII, 2017, digital paintings printed on bricks, 20 x 10 cm Ed. of 7
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise What Happens When The Parrot Leaves, 2017, performative art writing installation
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise First Reach In And Try To Re Use, 2016, digital print on archival paper, 83 x 83 cm, Ed. of 3+2 AP
AUDREY SALMON Clotted Bodies in Paradise What Happens When The Parrot Leaves (installation view), 2017, performative art writing installation
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Audrey Salmon is a French born Johannesburg based multimedia artist. She works across sculptural objects, photography, printmaking, writing and moving images. Salmon graduated with a MFA at Goldsmiths College, London, UK, in September 2015. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, ZA. Salmon has exhibited in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include: “One colour at a time”, WAM, Johannesburg (2017), “Videokills invisible cities symphonies”, London (2016), “FNB Joburg Art Fair”, Room Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), “The Wrong”, New Digital Art Biennale, London (2016), “Ladies Night”, ArtDownTown Gallery, Grand Rapids, USA (2015), “Regulate”, The Montgomery Gallery, Sheffield, UK (2015), “Open Plan, Neo Craft” Arebyte Gallery, London (2014), “Refuse the shadow of the past” UMAG, Hong Kong (2014), “Memory Doll” Solo Show, C5 Gallery, Beijing, PRC (2013). Salmon also forms part of the collective wasis.today: “Wakawaka” AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), “Orchestrated Freedom” Solo show, ROOM Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), “Bad Behaviour Open”, SixBrixton, London (2015).
ABOUT ROOM
ROOM is an independent multi-disciplinary gallery including a project-based space that offers monthly programming showcasing young and emergent artists. In September 2015, ROOM relocated to new premises on the ground floor of Ellis House building in New Doornfontein, Johannesburg. We are pleased to be the latest addition to an area that is home to several exciting creative spaces and developments (both new and existing) including the King Kong Building which houses VANSA & Keleketla Library (Verwey Street), August House (End Street), and of course the infamous Troyeville Hotel. We see this move as a great opportunity to further contribute to a broader art community in the inner city. www.roomgallery.co.za Maria Fidel Regueros - maria@roomgallery.co.za / +27 (0) 82 373 6127 Jemma Dwyer - jemma@roomgallery.co.za / +27 (0) 76 593 9408 Zinhle Zwane - zinhle@roomgallery.co.za / +27 (0) 65 804 5808