exhibition

STILL LIFE AND RESPONSIBLE TOURISM

Grace Ndiritu

31.Jan.07 - 18.Mar.07
Wed-Sun 1-6

Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Rd
London E3 5QZ
020 8981 4518
mail@chisenhale.org.uk
www.chisenhale.org.uk
Tube Mile End, Bethnal Green, Bow / Limehouse

Chisenhale Gallery presents a new multi-screen video work by Grace Ndiritu. Still Life and Responsible Tourism, comprises two video quartets that will be projected onto four large-scale screens within the gallery.

Still Life includes four large-scale videos, projected simultaneously, that use West African textiles in a sensual and, at times, unnerving physical performance by the artist to camera. Ndiritu wraps, conceals and reveals her body, creating and controlling tensions within the fabric to provoke different emotional responses.

Responsible Tourism comprises four large-scale videos, projected in sequence, that explore aspects of a complex relationship between the artist’s performance as a western tourist, behind the camera, and a nomadic African population as they go about their everyday business and lives. Ndiritu captures unstaged moments that focus on the daily acts of the local population, such as cooking outdoors and camel racing.

Grace Ndiritu was born in 1976 and lives and works in London. She studied at Winchester School of Art, London and De Ateliers, Amsterdam. She recently completed a studio residency at Delfina Studios, London (2004-206).

Recent Exhibitions include: Untitled Resistance, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2006); Nuova Icona in conjunction with Ikon Gallery, during the 51st Venice Biennale, Italy (2005); The Nightingale, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005); Time, Delfina Studios (2005); Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (winner of the Perspective Prize 2004); Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery (2004)

Supported by: Arts Council England, London, Decibel and Mites (a FACT Service)