Duncan Campbell Falls Burns Malone Fiddles

THE UNNAMABLE
a Lounge/LUX project
20 April – 28 May 2006
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm

Lounge
28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8

Transport:
Rail: Dalston Kingsland  Bus: 67 76 149 236 243
Tube: Highbury & Islington, then 30/38 bus to Dalston Junction
www.lounge-gallery.com

Lounge gallery and LUX are pleased to present the debut London solo shows of three video artists (Sebastian Buerkner, Laure Prouvost and Duncan Campbell) as part of an exhibition entitled The Unnamable.

The Unnamable is the first collaboration between Lounge and LUX. The exhibition consists of three two-week solo gallery shows, presenting works which have not been exhibited in London before in specially-designed installations. There will be separate openings for each of the shows and several contextual events.

With a nod to Samuel Beckett, the exhibition is loosely themed around the notion of gaps in language and experience: the primæval stratum to everyday existence, the background hum of subjective states which never quite break through into the world of speech, commerce and common sense. This inchoate stream of velleities and half-fleshed fantasies can be unspeakably trivial, or unutterably disturbing.

Laure Prouvost Abstractions Quotidiennes

The video works presented in The Unnamable each, in their different ways, evoke these subliminal states. Sebastian Buerkner’s work involves an ongoing attempt to develop visual dictionaries, a shadow language of images which are associated with particular sounds or words, but which gradually take on a life of their own. Laure Prouvost’s Abstractions Quotidiennes are synaesthetic stories in which abject details, examined in tactile close-up, give rise to elaborate and macabre fictions. Duncan Campbell’s Falls Burns Malone Fiddles examines a series of photographs from a Belfast community archive, as the narrator questions not only his own position as observer but his very existence.

Lounge is an independently run gallery space and studios, dedicated to showing the best in contemporary art by emerging artists. Lounge also provides a forum for artists' talks and discussions, performance art events, film and video screenings and readings.

Individual Show Dates

Sebastian Buerkner
20 - 30 April 2006
Private view Wednesday 19 April, 6 - 9pm

Laure Prouvost
4 - 14 May 2006
Private view Wednesday 3 May, 6 - 9pm

Duncan Campbell
18 - 28 May 2006
Private view Wednesday 17 May, 6 - 9pm

The Artists

Sebastian Buerkner

Sebastian Buerkner was born in Berlin in 1975. He studied Fine Art, at University of Halle/Saale in Germany and Chelsea College in London. Having initially worked in sculpture, he has recently begun to work with Flash animation. His video work has been included in a number of shows, including Pilot 2, London (2005) and Centre of Attention at the Rio, London (2005), and he has recently been commissioned to make a film for broadcast on Channel 4 by the animate! scheme (www.animateonline.org). He lives and works in London.

Laure Prouvost was born in Lille in 1978. Since graduating from St Martins College of Art and Design, she has produced a variety of video-based works for both screening and installation. Exhibitions include Nowhere Else But Here, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2004) and Fabula, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford (2003). She currently curates videos for tank magazine’s ‘online gallery’ tank tv  (www.tank.tv). She lives and works in London. She has a website about her work at www.laureprouvost.com.

Duncan Campbell was born in Dublin in 1972. He completed the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 1998 and BA Fine Art at the University of Ulster, 1996. Recent exhibitions include Art From Glasgow, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2005), Falls Burns Malone Fiddles, Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne (2004) and Manifesta 5 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (2004). He lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne.