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Figuring landscapes

Dobai, Sarah (2008) Figuring landscapes. [Show/Exhibition]

Type of Research: Show/Exhibition
Creators: Dobai, Sarah
Description:

Figuring Landscapes explored the subject of landscape within artists’ film and video work in the UK and Australia. The exhibition/ screening programme engaged with multiple themes including; the experience of landscape in spatial and psychological terms, the political, cultural and representational engagement with place and the environment and how human presence writes and performs the landscape.

Sarah Dobai exhibited the work, 'Nettlecombe', a 16mm single screen work.

Other Contributors:
RoleName
ExhibitorBall, Steven
ExhibitorBarber, George
ExhibitorCady, Anna
ExhibitorCran, Roz
ExhibitorCrooks, Daniel
ExhibitorCruz, Sergio
ExhibitorDahlgren, Sofia
ExhibitorDeacon, Destiny
ExhibitorDonnelly, Ann
ExhibitorDoring, Jeff
ExhibitorElwes, Catherine
ExhibitorFairskye, Merilyn
ExhibitorGiddy, Allan
ExhibitorGillies, John
ExhibitorGladwell, Shaun
ExhibitorGoodwin, Dryden
ExhibitorHill, Tony
ExhibitorHoney, Tammy
ExhibitorHulse, Matt
ExhibitorJohnson, Esther
ExhibitorJones, Lyndal
ExhibitorKötting, Andrew
ExhibitorLee, Brendan
ExhibitorLim, Eugenia
ExhibitorMackenzie, David
ExhibitorMarshall, Mike
ExhibitorMorrison, Scott
ExhibitorMurdoch, Matthew
ExhibitorPerry, David
ExhibitorPlatten, Bronwyn
ExhibitorRaban, William
ExhibitorRichardson, Emily
ExhibitorRivers, Ben
ExhibitorShipsides, Dan
ExhibitorTait, Margaret
ExhibitorTheobald, David
Other Corporate or Group Contributors:
RoleOther Corporate or Group Contributors
ExhibitorDalziel & Scullion
ExhibitorJohn Hughes & Peter Kennedy
ExhibitorSusan Norrie & David Mackenzie
ExhibitorSemiconductor
Additional Information (Publicly available):

SARAH DOBAI
BIOGRAPHY

Sarah Dobai works with photography, film and video, she has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and America. Recent exhibitions include On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada (2011), A Fire Is Set in His Masters House, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (2011), Theatres of the Real, Antwerp FotoMuseum (2009), Darkside 2, Winterthur FotoMusuem (2009), Studio/ Location Photographs, Works| Projects (2009), Sarah Dobai; Photographs and a Film, Galerie Zurcher, Paris (2008), Dispari Dispari, Reggio Emilia (2008) Innocence and Experience, Gimpel Fils, London (2007) and Sarah Dobai, Artists’ Space, New York (2003). In 2006 Kettles Yard, Cambridge presented a major solo show of selected photographs and a specially commissioned two screen video projection ‘Model 280’.

In the mid 1990‘s Sarah Dobai completed an MFA at the University of British Columbia after Canada after which she established her practice with a consciousness of international debates around photography and the moving image. From 2004-2006 she was awarded a Residency at Delfina Studio Trust, London and in 2008 she was made a Visual Arts Laurete by the Centre International des Recollets, Paris. Her work is featured in Charlotte Cotton's ‘The Photograph as Contemporary Art’ Thames & Hudson, and in the second edition of Michel Poivert’s’ ‘La Photographie Contemporaine’, Flammarion Presse 2010. She lives and works in London.

RESEARCH STATEMENT

My work with photography, video and film combines studio-based and on location approaches to reflect on the everyday and its relationship with the media of photography and film. Whilst my work with the still and moving image have been wide-ranging, the work has seen the development of prevailing themes and methodologies predicated around the dynamics of space, place and the human subject as understood through our own intimate experience and through the images of collective experiences represented on TV, in the cinema and in literature. Recent research has led to the production of a number of film and video works, Short Story Piece, Model 280 and Nettlecombe which are distinctive for the way that they both engage in and actively defy the conventions of mainstream illusionistic and narrative cinema.

The recent series Studio/ Location Photographs focusses on the image of the shopping mall and how its concern with commodity and consumption effects the way the space functions and how people behave there. The series juxtaposes photographs of un-peopled sites shot in malls, with images of actor/models taken in the studio. In the studio the models are pictured in a set whose construction intentionally echoes the architectural qualities of the urban spaces photographed. The demeanour of the models in the studio photographs move between the enacted and un-posed, drawing parallels between people’s uneasy relation to public space in everyday life and how a model finds ‘a way to be’ in the theatrical context of the photo-shoot.

‘Studio/ Location Photographs’ continues my on-going use of photography and film to consider artifice as a condition of everyday life. I am currently developing a new film which plays narrative or psychological readings against the exposure and recognition of the conditions of the production of the works themselves.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

Studio/ Location Photographs, Works|Projects, Bristol, UK

2008

Sarah Dobai: Photographies et film, Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France

2006

Sarah Dobai; Phototographs & Filmworks, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Short Story Piece. Changing Role Gallery, Naples, Italy.

2005

Short Story Piece. 1000 000mph, London. UK. (New projection and bookwork)

2004

What we talk about when we talk about love, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

2003

Two on a Party, ArtLab, Imperial College, London, UK
Artists’ Space, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

On the Nature of Things, with R. Graham, S. Oxsannen & Jacques de la Villegle, Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada
A Fire is Set in the Masters House, Chapter Arts with Chodzko, Price & Dean, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
Ideal 13, Espace Croise, Roubaix, Lille, France
Peeping Tom , Dutch institute Kunsthal KAdE, Netherlands

2010

Splitting in Two, Gimpel Fils, London
Peeping Tom,, curated by Keith Coventry, Vegas Gallery, London

2009

Darkside II - Photographic Power & Violence, Disease & Death Photographed, curated by Ur Stahel, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Now You See It, Café Gallery, Southwark Park
Theatres of the Real, FotoMuseum, with Hunter, Shaffran and Pickering, Antwerp, Belgium
Figuring LandscapesBritish and Australian Film and Video curated by C. Elwes & S. Ball, Touring
exhibition and screening programme. Venues included Tate Modern, Dundee Contemporary Arts,
FACT Liverpool, Chapter Arts Cardiff, Site, Sheffield and Australian venues.

2008

Limited, The Wharf Road Project, London, UK
In the Society of London Ladies. Group, Dispari Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

2007

Innocence & Experience, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

2006

75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a Citizen. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Simon and Sarah, Platform Gallery, London.
Subjectivity and Feminism, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art & Design

2005

LOOP, International exhibition of Video and film, Barcelona, Spain

2004

Richard Billingham, Sarah Dobai, Valie Export, Joao Penalva,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany.

2003

Sodium Dreams. Group show including P. Huyghe, S. Morris, M. Boyce,
K. Asdam. Bard College, Centre for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

Commissions East Residency, Jaywick, Nov ‘09-May 2010
International Centre des Recollets Residency and Commission, Paris, Spring 2008.
Delfina Studio Trust Award, 2006-2007
London Artists Film and Video Award from Film London 2006, funded by the Arts Council.
Residency at Delfina Studios, London 2004 – 2006.

Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts
Date: November 2008
Related Publications: Figuring landscapes : artists’ moving image from Australia and the UK ISBN 9781846380471 (pbk). Edited by Catherine Elwes, Eu Jin Chua and Steven Ball. 104 pages. With images and biographies of all artists and essays by Prof Malcolm Andrews, Eu Jin Chua
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Tate Modern
November 2008
April 2010
Dundee Contemporary Arts
2008
2010
FACT, Liverpool
2008
2010
Vivid, Birmingham
2008
2010
Showroom, Sheffield
2008
2010
Glimmer Festival, Hull
2008
2010
Chapter Arts, Cardiff
2008
2010
Site Festival, Stroud
2008
2010
Valley Artspace, Cinecity, Brighton Film Festival
2008
2010
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland
2008
2010
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2008
2010
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008
2010
Cinémathèque, Melbourne
2008
2010
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2012 14:43
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2023 04:46
Item ID: 5230
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5230

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