 Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska Oblique Composition performance view 2003 Courtesy: the artist Photo: Alan Dimmick Lucy McKenzie Art Now Lucy McKenzie, born in 1977, lives and works in Glasgow. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee and at Karlsruhe Kunst Akademie, Germany. McKenzie's recent solo exhibitions include "If It Moves, Kiss It" at Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (2002) and "Brian Eno" at NAK Aachen (2003). She is also participating in this year's Venice Biennale. This "Art Now" project is her first solo presentation in London in over two years. McKenzie's art practice is multi-disciplinary and she finds inspiration in a diversity of sources, mixing high art and popular culture, creating events as well as exhibitions. As part of her "Art Now project MMIV", McKenzie will present a new film showing edited footage of her live performance with Gdansk artist Paula Olowska. In this, they played caricatured roles of "working women": an architect and an artist. A key theme of the performance was the manipulation of reality, and this idea is enhanced by its presentation as a film, with an atmospheric soundtrack by composer Marcin Dutka. A handmade silkscreen year-planner for 2004 continues to evoke the notion of the artist as "cultural worker". McKenzie is interested in aspects of socially-engaged art and wishes to explore the role of charity in Britain, and in capitalist society in general. Considering her own position as an artist and feminist, McKenzie also wishes to highlight the activities of the Warsaw based charity "La Strada", whose aim is to combat the trafficking of women from East to Western Europe, where they are forced into prostitution. 20 September - 9 November 2003 Daily, 10.00-17.40 Tate Britain Millbank UK-London, SW1P 4RG Telephone +44 020 7887 8000 www.tate.org.uk |
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