Your Time
Phebe Schmidt
Opening 01.08.18 6-8pm
Artist Talks 23.08.18 6-7pm
Your Time examines concepts of selfhood - seeking to make visible the gaps between image/brand and nebulous concepts of "reality" and “authenticity”. Part of this process is the conflation of subject and object, evoking a sense of ephemerality and the fragmentary disposable nature of ‘the brand’. Through the use of a highly constructed and uncanny visual aesthetic that is not bound by time and place, a fictional space is created that blurs the line between the real and the unreal. Exaggerated by slow motion, the subject’s movements are awkward, robotic and emotionless - the character acts out her own surreal dreamscape, straining to remain focussed on an ambiguous and elusive end-goal. The character enacts an imaginary ‘everyday’ life, a performance of self that reveals an aspirational portrayal of perhaps a future, or idealised, self. This theatrical space explores and unpacks the familiar within a “real-world imaginary” together with a character who is trying to visualise who they are and want to be.
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