Lisha Aquino Rooney
The hard mathematics of in-betweenness
Installation
Vegas Gallery
2007

 

Bilge Barhana,Lisha Aquino Rooney and Jomi Kim
‘Spare the Horses’
15 february-20 february 2007
Open:12.00-19.00
Private View Thursday 15th February 18.00-21.00
www.vegasgallery.co.uk

PRESS RELEASE
SPARE THE HORSES
Release Date: 26 January 2007

Vegas Gallery is pleased to announce its first multimedia group exhibition featuring the most recent work of four contemporary emerging artists. ‘Spare the Horses’ presents works in a distinctive range of styles and provides a forum for an exchange of ideas surrounding the notion of “the journey home”.The artists aim to critically recontextualize the concept of a domicile and determine whether it, in fact, exists for them personally. Because every attempt to create a meaning results in the accumulation of several subtexts from the onset and certain psychoanalytical and ideological aspects in the process, it has proven difficult for the artists to not reveal deeply personal parts of themselves in the works. Thus, ‘Spare the Horses’ emerges from the personal and eventually and inevitably returns to the personal.

The significance of the exhibition lies in the four completely different subjectivities it represents, each of which attests to the power of individual experience as a continually renewing source that fulfils the desire to formalize and substantiate thoughts and ideas and to initiate conversation. In this regard, the exhibition is a visual testimony to a combined effort to make a map of a home that does not consist of the state-dictated and state-sanctioned singular idea of “home” but rather begs such questions as whether the home can ever be defined as an architectural structure, whether one’s home is determined before he or she is even conceived, whether home is ever found in one’s lifetimes or whether one can make a journey back to a home that never existed in the first place.

The artists present a poetic, droll and relatively minimalist body of work which incorporates installation and video, and throughout the pieces, there are evident polarities: longing and aversion, silence and clamor, recall and forget, and saline and saccharine.

Bilge Barhana lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Anette Overgaard lives and works in Denmark.
Jomi Kim lives and works in Japan. Lisha Aquino Rooney lives and works in London.

For further information and images, please contact: Suzanne Schurgers
Tel: 07726750762 or Email: Hello@vegasgallery.co.uk