scenery
Adam Caruso | Wim Delvoye | Charles Mason
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Mandy Ure | Roy Voss | Naomi Wilkinson
The word scenery is commonly considered to be the natural appearance of a landscape, especially when picturesque. It is thought of as that which is behind us, or surrounds us, or that which we gaze upon.
As a dramatic element, scenery's conventions are understood by an audience enough for them to accept a version of ‘real life’ in some measure. The exhibition posits an idea that scenery can be understood as the action itself, rather than the background to a set of events.
scenery is also an attempt to foreground imagery which could be considered low, cheap or spent – to reconsider, regenerate and make active that which has become traumatised or displaced from a determined context.
SCENERY : Wim Delvoye, Charles Mason, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mandy Ure, Roy Voss, Naomi Wilkinson (included in the "Extra 50" 50th Venice Biennale ,Nuova Icona @ Santa Maria del Soccorso, Venice, Italy)
supported by the British Council