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PUMP HOUSE PAVILION AND LUX, SATURDAY 20 MAY, 5-7PM
ARTIST BIOS
HELEN CARMEL BENIGSON
Helen Benigson is a video and performance artist concerned with the presentation and construction of body within online space. Her research is configured around the metaphorics of space and place as associated with the Internet’s interface hardware and software. Often collaborating with an all-female cast of volunteers and participants: amateur and professional weightlifters, spray tan beauticians, dancers, ‘tequila-girls’, strippers, midwives, sound engineers and translators, Benigson’s practice provokes carnivalesque, pulsating spaces, referencing contemporary game playing, performance and what it means to “share”.
Please see exhibition history attached.
RUTH WATERS
Inspired by women’s magazines, the capitalisation of self love and the wellness industry, Ruth Waters’ immersive installations use humour to engage the practice of individualised healing in a way that is at once critical and highly self aware.
Exhibition History: http://www.ruthwaters.co.uk/ruth-waters-artist-info.html
LAURE PROUVOST
Laure Prouvost was born in 1978 in Croix-Lille, France. She lives and works in London, UK and Antwerp, Belgium.
After receiving the Max Mara Prize for Women [2011], Prouvost was the first French artist to win the prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary British artists and/or living in Great Britain.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include a major touring solo exhibition between Consortium Dijon, MMK Frankfurt and Kunstmuseum Luzern [2016] in addition to solo exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam [2017]; Speak, Serpentine Sackler Gallery [2017]; Hangar Biccoca, Milan; FRAC/Consortium, Dijon; and State of Concept, Athens [2016]. 2016 also includes residencies at Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa and at Fahrenheit for FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles.
Recent solo exhibitions include A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek at Fahrenheit, Los Angeles [2016]; DER ÖFFENLICHKEIT: Laure Prouvost at Haus Der Kunst, Munich; Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in der dole) at carlier|gebauer, Berlin; Laure Prouvost: It, Heat, Hit, e-flux, New York; We Will Go Far, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart; Burrow Me, Rupert, Vilinus; L’écran: Entre ici et Ailleurs, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. Other selected solo exhibitions include The Meeting at MOT International, Brussels [2014]; Polpomotorino at Morra Greco Foundation, Naples [2014]; For Forgetting at New Museum, New York [2014]; From Wantee to Some Signs at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp [2014]; Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko at Tate Britain, London [2013]; Laure Prouvost at The Hepworth, Wakefield [2012].
Recent group exhibitions include Spirit Your Mind, Chalet Society, Free Spirit Sport Bar, Miami; The Real Thing at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City [2015]; The British Art Show, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, and Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich; John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (touring); Trust at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Hybridize or Disappear at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon; Film Montage at Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul; Charles Avery I Laure Prouvost I Rodney Graham I Ben Rivers, Darbyshire, London; Rituels, répétitions, contraintes, tentations, Musée Regional d’Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon; Natural Beginners, La Rouvraie, Grosrouvre, Paris [2015]; Mirrorcity at the Hayward Gallery, London; The Great Acceleration at the Taipei Biennial; Portraits d'Intérieurs at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; More Real Than Reality Itself at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; L'ALMANACH 14 at Consortium, Dijon; Drowning and swallowing this text at LACE, Los Angeles; Resonance(s) at La Maison Particulière, Brussells; Listening, Hayward Touring at BALTIC B39, Newcastle upon Tyne;
The Bluecoat, Liverpool; Site and Sheffield Institute of the Arts Gallery, Sheffield; Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich [2014]; Turner Prize 2013 at CCA Derry~Londonderry; Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013 at Tate Britain, London [2013].
ELLIE KUNGRAN HEO
Ellie Kyungran Heo makes experimental films by collaging performances with documentary
footage of her subject, tracking how her relationship with the subject changes, with respect
to conflict, intimacy and sensitivity. Her recent works have been exhibited and screened at
the Whitstable Biennale, Kent (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); South London
Gallery, London (2015); Isshi Art Space, Nagano (2016); Total Museum of Contemporary
Art, Seoul (2017) and numerous international art film festivals, including the Experiments in
Cinema, New Mexico (2017).
www.elliekyungran.com
CAROLE ENAHORO
Carole Enahoro worked at the London Film Maker's Co-op from 1985-87, making a short series of mainly Arts Council funded films on African themes. She went on to study MA in Film & TV Studies and worked as a producer in film/TV for a number of years. She is currently a writer.
RAPHAEL MONTANEZ ORTIZ
“Born in 1934, Ortiz grew up in a working-class environment in New York during the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War. But if he was deeply involved in and impacted by these events, his development as an artist was equally oriented toward the ascendant art world of New York. Since the late 1950s, Ortiz has contributed to international art movements centred on performance, installation, participation and the moving image. Ortiz produced recycled films in 1958, the same year that Bruce Conner is credited with establishing the genre (after earlier examples by Joseph Cornell and others) and, as a film-maker, he represents a parallel development alongside established or canonical movements within the American avant-garde. Today, however, he is primarily known within the context of Latino art; his involvement in late modern film and art is less noted, despite his rather extensive involvement in the New York and international art world during the late 1950s to the mid-60s.\" - Chon A. Noriega, Afterall nr 21, Summer 2009
PAUL ROONEY
Having attended Edinburgh College of Art he also makes musical or non-musical museum and gallery artworks, some of which have been commissioned by organisations such as Film and Video Umbrella, The Drawing Room or Tate Liverpool, or have been made during artist residencies at places like DCA, Dundee; Proyecto Batiscafo, Cuba; and University of Oxford/Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. He has shown work at Tate Britain; The Arnolfini; BALTIC; Whitechapel Gallery; and ICA; and has exhibited internationally at places such as Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville) and at the Shanghai Biennial. Works by Rooney were included in the British Council show Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, which toured to eighteen international venues from 2003 to 2006; British Art Show 6, which toured around the UK in 2005-2006; and Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, shown at the National Galleries of Scotland in 2009. Other projects include solo art exhibitions at Site Gallery, Sheffield, Matt’s Gallery, London and the Liverpool Biennial; a site-specific sound ‘lecture’ in Leeds for Sound and Music; and a museum object divination website for University of Cambridge Museums. He was the winner of the second Northern Art Prize in 2008, and two of his video installations were purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2015.