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MINI-VEGAS SPACE PROJECT 3
"4Mation"
19 July- 22 July 2007
Samantha Mogelonsky
Lisa Flynn
Paula Naughton
Bethany Murray
Open: All days from 12.00 - 18.00
Private View Wednesday 18 July 18.00-22.00
After Party 9-2am @ Verge
LISA FLYNN
Video still
"Drawing Breath"
2006
BETHANY MURRAY
Lambda Print, 20" x 30"
"Night Series 1"
2007
PAULA NAUGHTON
Lambda print, 11.69" x 16.53"
"Apparition 2"
2007
SAMANTHA MOGELONSKY
"For Rorshach"
C-print
2007
"4-MATION"
"4-MATION"
"4-MATION"
BETHANY MURRAY
SAMANTHA MOGELONSKY
SAMANTHA MOGELONSKY
SAMANTHA MOGELONSKY
PAULA NAUGHTON
PAULA NAUGHTON
LISA FLYNN
PRESS RELEASE
Release Date: 29 june 2007
"4Mation"
19 July- 22 July 2007
Samantha Mogelonsky
Lisa Flynn
Paula Naughton
Bethany Murray
MINI-VEGAS SPACE PROJECT 3
“4Mation”
“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 archi-
tectural 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 dis-
placement. 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 movingthrough 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.
For further information and images, please contact: Suzanne Schurgers
Tel: 07726750762 or Email: [email protected]
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