Sophy Rickett "Auditorium and Recent Photo Works"
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At NCA | Nichido Contemporary Art
Media: Photography, Video installation, Art Party
We are delighted to announce Sophy Rickett's solo show “Auditorium and Recent Photo Works" at nca.
Auditorium is a major new film and sound installation by artist Sophy Rickett and composer Ed Hughes. It is a direct response to Glyndebourne Opera, both as a physical site and as a locus of music and performance with a rich and celebrated history.
Bringing together the two artists' interest in modernist forms and values in art, and strongly echoing Sophy Rickett's photographic work, the film uncompromisingly strips back the operatic space to its architectural and theatrical core, revealing another more minimal drama of spatial plays and simple, slow movement that transforms the interior of the building in a monumental caress of light and shadow.
Rickett turns the stage, backstage and auditorium of Glyndebourne into a play of deferred revelations that implicitly acknowledge the tensions and contradictions between the two theatrical metaphors of truth and knowledge. At times her film is impassively formal, offering an austere image of truth as geometry. At other times it turns the functional modernist spaces of the Glyndebourne opera house into a baroque fantasy; a joyful play of illusory spaces.
Schedule
From 2009-04-10 To 2009-05-16
Opening Reception on 2009-04-10 from 18:00 to 20:00
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Reviews
Darkness at the opera
By Danielle Demetriou
Special to The Japan Times
"Photography is complicit with the imagination," says Rickett, discussing the new works. "These images are closer to how we imagine the birds and trees to be before you get there than how they really are ..."
