23 October 2010 – 2 January 2011 Preview: Saturday 23 October, 2 – 4pm
at aspex, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF
"In 1999 a young woman was involved in a moped accident. She suffered damage to both her short and long-term memory and was left unable to decipher her experiences. A year later she went missing in Rome and has subsequently not been found."
It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.
What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling, but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.
What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling, but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, will also be exhibiting the work of Lindsay Seers. The installation It has to be this way2 will be exhibited from 9 October until 11 December 2010.
Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work on Thursday 11 November at 6pm.
Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work on Thursday 11 November at 6pm.
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