Anne Ninivin
In my art practice I use various media such as video, photography, drawings and texts. My recent work involves the relationship between an image (photo, drawing) and a juxtaposed text, and works with the gap/space between the image and the text. The work refers to cinema, whether the film sets, the intervention of fictions borrowed from cinema into everyday life, or the memory/images left by a film. The stories and projects also refer to consumer society, magazine culture, and to fantasies of adventure and exoticism. My work often functions on the principle of a grid and variation. The drawing "On the 12th of January Frank" is part of a map drawing/text project where an imaginary building becomes the setting for a series of short narratives. As the project goes on, extensions are added to the original architecture creating possibilities for new scenarios, meetings and interactions. I set myself a rule and the series of work acts as a performance of the rule. Because it involves everyday consumables as material, such as architecture maps and building extensions, dressing up and props, or magazine images, the performance aspect mingles in a ludicrous way with an act of consumption. Each new element in the series is a contingent and gratuitous possibility that defines a moment rather than being a systematic application of the rule. Anne Ninivin London |
