Anna Lucas Adrift "Adrift", Lucas' major new installation for Chisenhale Gallery focuses on travel, displacement and migration. "Adrift" combines film projections and sound, forming cinematic interludes that are inflected with reverie and tenderness, disquiet and departure. Anna Lucas is an emerging artist/filmmaker increasingly recognised for her film and video installations that transform daily experience into epic drama or sensual intimacy. In "Adrift", visitors move through an assembly of Super-8 films shot by Lucas around the world. Images of movement and passage form a thread throughout the installation: ports, ferries and embarkation are soundtracked by Lucas' field recordings of public gatherings, overheard music, birds, wind and water. Lucas' idiosyncratic film language is foregrounded in her long takes, rich filmic sensibility and use of classical framing. This is often combined with her depictions of imperfect landscapes, utilitarian architecture and temporary resting places. "Adrift" is Anna Lucas' first solo exhibition in London. Lucas was recently Henry Moore Fellow at Spike Island, Bristol, where she presented her video installation "Bud" in April 2003, touring to Anna Schwartz Gallery as part of the 2003 Melbourne Festival. Lucas has produced numerous films working closely with her subjects and collaborators: "The Space Between Your Mind and Eyes" (2001, commissioned by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham); "Viva Great Yarmouth!" (2000, collaboration with poet John Cooper Clarke); and "Just a Moment" (1999, Prema Arts Centre residency). Lucas' has also worked with Channel 4, Resonance FM, Dance for the Screen and Poetry International. "Adrift" is commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Picture This Moving Image, Bristol and is supported by Film London. Exhibition: 4 February - 14 March, 2004 Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 1 - 6 pm Chisenhale Gallery 64 Chisenhale Road GB-London E3 5QZ Telephone +44(0) 20 8981 4518 Fax +44 (0) 20 8980 7169 Email mail@chisenhale.org.uk www.chisenhale.org.uk |
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