Lloyd, Hilary (2017) Dock Lands. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | Lloyd, Hilary |
Description: | Upon entering Dock Lands, the viewer first encounters two lengths of tie-dyed hot pink and black fabric, hanging from an oddly obtrusive frame of industrial wall studs—in a nod both to cinematic curtains and to aesthetics claimed by psychedelic and punk subculture. Beyond this initial obstruction are paraphernalia suggestive of a rock performance: a tangle of cables, tall set of speakers, and a subwoofer. Various spatial interventions stretch across the area of the gallery. Another stud construction—in which Lloyd has embedded two overlapping wooden cutouts, among many strewn about the gallery—extends toward a rear wall of the gallery. Running across the top of the back wall is a banner, which rounds the corner of the room and stretches across the length of the adjacent windows. Aurally, one hears a dog barking and a cover of the 1936 Fred Astaire song, “We Saw the Sea”—relating the exhibition’s soundtrack to her playfully embellished dog photos and stenciled anchors, Lloyd uses sound not as diegetic but as associative and symbolic. Though it fills the space, the soundtrack in fact originates from Mile High Club (2017). Projected low on the floor and at a small scale, Mile High Club turns Lloyd’s lens on an airport runway as seen through a plane window, exploring a romanticized notion of arrivals and departures. Emphasizing texture, activating every part of the gallery space, stimulating yet confusing one’s hearing, and obstructing natural pathways, Lloyd’s installation renders viewing an active and physiological experience, upending cinema’s paralysis of the viewer and singular focus on the screen. Solo exhibition. |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Date: | 26 May 2017 |
Related Websites: | http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/exhibitions/hilary-lloyd, http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/exhibitions/hilary-lloyd/press-release1 |
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Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, New York (NY), USA 26 May 2017 24 June 2017 |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2017 12:01 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2017 12:01 |
Item ID: | 11420 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/11420 |
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