Reoccuring Undulation
2 July – 18 September 2011 (free)
Towner, The Contemporary Art Museum
An exhibition of contemporary British sculpture by Susie MacMurray, Brendan Jamison, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Claire Morgan, Jill Townsley and Henry Seaton
Salmon skins on zinc plated tiles,
960 tiles of 20 cm x 20 cm
See BBC News report (YouTube).
‘Reoccurring Undulation’ is made out of 960 salmon skin tiles which have been previously cleaned and preserved. The skin tiles are arranged to form an intriguing and dynamic pattern, taking over the full length of the wall, filing the space from floor to ceiling like a tapestry. The light reflecting on the material and its patterns makes further references to its richness and beauty.
The material has been selected through a process of engagement with the locality, its landscape and history. What lies beneath and inside the material world of membranes and skins are recurring obsessions in Hadzi-Vasileva’s work. She is interested in taking dead waste materials and transforming them through repetition into new artefacts that show us the latent beauty of this discarded matter. Hadzi-Vasileva often endures weeks/months of repetitive and nauseating labour to create her work. It is precisely this repetition that creates an imaginative space, opens up possibilities, and allows the work to evolve accordingly and places the work into context.
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