London-based artist Elizabeth Price (UK, b. 1966) creates richly layered, moving image works made specifically for gallery settings. Composed of a broad range of imagery sourced from analogue and digital photography, animation, and motion graphics, her works are often accompanied by scrolling text, narrated by a computerized voice and paired with music.
Conceived in response to the architecture and past history of the Walker’s gallery, this solo exhibition features two new moving image works—FELT TIP and KOHL (both 2018)—marking the artist’s first commission for a US museum. Projected floor to ceiling at over 15 feet, FELT TIP focuses on design motifs of men’s neckties from the 1970s and ’80s with patterns that evoke electronic networks and digital systems. Exploring the tie as both a sign of professional distinction and a sexually charged object, the work weaves together narratives of early computer technologies in the workplace and the gendered distinctions of its workforce. Conceived as a ghost story, KOHL describes a vast and unseen underground liquid network that hosts mysterious apparitions called “visitants,” who hint at ways that the mining of coal has underpinned much of our present social reality. Seen together, Price’s new works take motifs of dress and body adornment to reflect upon the relationship between the material and digital, sites of labor, and markers of class.
Curator: Pavel Pyś, with Jadine Collingwood
FELT TIP is co-commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella (FVU). Making moving image works by artists for three decades, FVU has championed new creative talent and innovative ideas working in collaboration with a range of venues in the UK and internationally. To find out more, visit fvu.co.uk
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elizabeth Price (b. 1966) is a British moving image artist. In 2012, she was awarded the Turner Prize for her video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979. In 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Price was educated at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and the Royal College of Art, London, and she gained a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 1999. She has exhibited in group exhibitions internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, and the British Film Institute, London; and the Musée d’art Contemporain, Montréal. Throughout her career, Price has continued to teach, most recently as a Lecturer in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford.
RELATED EVENTS
Elizabeth Price with Lucy Raven
Saturday, December 8, 12pm
Bentson Mediatheque, Free
Elizabeth Price, Lucy Raven, and curator Pavel Pyś discuss the role that archival research, image production, and appropriation play in the artists’ practices. Price’s new exhibition was conceived in response to the architecture and history of the Walker’s gallery, and includes two new moving image works, FELT TIPP and KOHL (both 2018), together marking the artist’s first commission for a US museum.
Elizabeth Price (UK, b. 1966) creates immersive video installations that incorporate digital text and music. She is a recipient of the 2012 Turner Prize and in 2016 she received the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award. Her work has been exhibited around Europe and the United states, including at Tate Britain, London; New Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Society, London; and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Lucy Raven (US, b. 1977) creates work grounded in animation and the moving image, but her multidisciplinary practice also incorporates still photography, installation, sound, and performative lecture. Her work deploys image-making processes used in contemporary filmmaking, which often hide the underlying labor in order to investigate the impact of industrial systems and technology within a global infrastructure.