"My Vacuum Suucks" a solo show of Artworks by Pieter Schoolwerth at GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, CP > 4pm to 7pm on 19th October to 7th December 2014
Time : 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Tuesdays closed)
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"My Vacuum Suucks" a solo show of Artworks by Pieter Schoolwerth
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GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001
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Entry : Free
Venue : GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001
Venue Info : www.galleryske.com | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : "My Vacuum Suucks" a solo show of Artworks by Pieter Schoolwerth, marking the artist’s first exhibition in India. The show began with a project at What Pipeline in Detroit, USA (2014) and will be shown at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2015) following its run in New Delhi.
“So...(I hate to say I told my self ‘so’ but I just did)...I’m so-rry to say my self couldn’t make it to the show, as it sucks...or, contrarily, maybe it was sucked out? I’m not sure which it is...And what is this ‘it’ I speak of anyway – is it me?...the world ‘out there’? And where, exactly, does it suck things into when there’s no space left out in the world to put anything in? Welcome to the vacuum of reality circa 2014 - these are the questions on the table, soon to fall onto the ground, and be sucked out when the vacuum is plugged in once again in Delhi for My Vacuum Sucks.
As recently relayed in an introduction to the first iteration of this project in Detroit, in a certain moment of a daze while cleaning my house with an old green vacuum last year, a rebus-like crack opened up into a space that freed up a moment in which to breathe. If a vacuum works – it sucks, yet if it doesn’t work – it still sucks. The fact that the vacuum can only be one way is unacceptable. So into the vacuum we go once again halfway around the world in search of another way it could possibly be, that does not suck...this is the establishing shot gazing out onto a space-less expanse that is the exhibition at hand.
So, whether ‘it’ was sewn together, sucked-in, made up, taken out - or however abstraction may have lain to rest my little green friend - the material fact was my vacuum was broken, and I needed a new one. I found a very cool faux wood grain model made by a company called Rainbow in the early 70’s that I liked - I figured all the earthy, organic motifs in place might make it slightly less inclined to suck, but unfortunately I still needed to clean the house. This model was also interesting because once sucked inside the detritus was contained within a transparent plastic chamber underneath the body of the machine and readily visible from the outside, as once removed. This seemed an intriguing metaphor for the human body’s self-awareness after ingesting food, ideas, and sensations. A few weeks after acquiring my new vacuum I found myself at a New Year’s Eve party in a certain infamous Michigan basement encased by wood paneled walls and a swirl of reveling partiers, and it struck me: the faux wood vacuum was the basement around me – and I was inside of it.
I was sucked back down into this same Detroit detritus repository a few months later to shoot the first scene of the 21 minute video made in collaboration with Alexandra Lerman that serves as the centerpiece of My Vacuum Sucks. Because we’d all been once removed from the world outside by this point apparently, it only made sense that the body of the lead character had to be digitally erased from the entire video, appearing as a hole, a shadow, or a mirror of the properly embodied figure he pays a friendly visit to inside each of the four scenes. The moving image on screen is composed of two disparate moments compressed, and running on top of each other. Everywhere the lead figure appears in the top layer his body is erased, and the abstracted space of his silhouette is filled with a different take of the same shot showing through the bottom layer. The result of this superimposition is thereby an image of temporal compression – two discrete moments in time are represented with a single image. The space of the emptied body sucked out opens up onto a fleeting moment just before, or is it one soon to follow? Like one’s elusive existence in vacuum space, the time of this world can also be rather slippery to negotiate it seems...
Moving images are not the only visual record of compressed time found in My Vacuum Sucks. Six paintings and a series of collages also depict the trials and tribulations of presence versus absence in the vacuum space of the world. A light casts shadows of figures and inanimate objects on a wall, which are photographed, and using the computer the images of these ‘projected’ bodies and objects are warped back into the contours of each of their accordant shadows, resulting in woven compositions of human-object hybridity printed out on canvas. A final layer of painterly intrusions is applied on top of each of these compressed and destabilized bodily images born in the shadowy vacuum, plugging in and thereby turning on the rectangular objects by literally reiterating the previously vacuous, pixilated material surface...in hopes, perhaps, that it does something other than suck.”
- Pieter Schoolwerth
Related Events : Exhibitions
Entry : Free
Venue : GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001
Venue Info : www.galleryske.com | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : "My Vacuum Suucks" a solo show of Artworks by Pieter Schoolwerth, marking the artist’s first exhibition in India. The show began with a project at What Pipeline in Detroit, USA (2014) and will be shown at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2015) following its run in New Delhi.
“So...(I hate to say I told my self ‘so’ but I just did)...I’m so-rry to say my self couldn’t make it to the show, as it sucks...or, contrarily, maybe it was sucked out? I’m not sure which it is...And what is this ‘it’ I speak of anyway – is it me?...the world ‘out there’? And where, exactly, does it suck things into when there’s no space left out in the world to put anything in? Welcome to the vacuum of reality circa 2014 - these are the questions on the table, soon to fall onto the ground, and be sucked out when the vacuum is plugged in once again in Delhi for My Vacuum Sucks.
As recently relayed in an introduction to the first iteration of this project in Detroit, in a certain moment of a daze while cleaning my house with an old green vacuum last year, a rebus-like crack opened up into a space that freed up a moment in which to breathe. If a vacuum works – it sucks, yet if it doesn’t work – it still sucks. The fact that the vacuum can only be one way is unacceptable. So into the vacuum we go once again halfway around the world in search of another way it could possibly be, that does not suck...this is the establishing shot gazing out onto a space-less expanse that is the exhibition at hand.
So, whether ‘it’ was sewn together, sucked-in, made up, taken out - or however abstraction may have lain to rest my little green friend - the material fact was my vacuum was broken, and I needed a new one. I found a very cool faux wood grain model made by a company called Rainbow in the early 70’s that I liked - I figured all the earthy, organic motifs in place might make it slightly less inclined to suck, but unfortunately I still needed to clean the house. This model was also interesting because once sucked inside the detritus was contained within a transparent plastic chamber underneath the body of the machine and readily visible from the outside, as once removed. This seemed an intriguing metaphor for the human body’s self-awareness after ingesting food, ideas, and sensations. A few weeks after acquiring my new vacuum I found myself at a New Year’s Eve party in a certain infamous Michigan basement encased by wood paneled walls and a swirl of reveling partiers, and it struck me: the faux wood vacuum was the basement around me – and I was inside of it.
I was sucked back down into this same Detroit detritus repository a few months later to shoot the first scene of the 21 minute video made in collaboration with Alexandra Lerman that serves as the centerpiece of My Vacuum Sucks. Because we’d all been once removed from the world outside by this point apparently, it only made sense that the body of the lead character had to be digitally erased from the entire video, appearing as a hole, a shadow, or a mirror of the properly embodied figure he pays a friendly visit to inside each of the four scenes. The moving image on screen is composed of two disparate moments compressed, and running on top of each other. Everywhere the lead figure appears in the top layer his body is erased, and the abstracted space of his silhouette is filled with a different take of the same shot showing through the bottom layer. The result of this superimposition is thereby an image of temporal compression – two discrete moments in time are represented with a single image. The space of the emptied body sucked out opens up onto a fleeting moment just before, or is it one soon to follow? Like one’s elusive existence in vacuum space, the time of this world can also be rather slippery to negotiate it seems...
Moving images are not the only visual record of compressed time found in My Vacuum Sucks. Six paintings and a series of collages also depict the trials and tribulations of presence versus absence in the vacuum space of the world. A light casts shadows of figures and inanimate objects on a wall, which are photographed, and using the computer the images of these ‘projected’ bodies and objects are warped back into the contours of each of their accordant shadows, resulting in woven compositions of human-object hybridity printed out on canvas. A final layer of painterly intrusions is applied on top of each of these compressed and destabilized bodily images born in the shadowy vacuum, plugging in and thereby turning on the rectangular objects by literally reiterating the previously vacuous, pixilated material surface...in hopes, perhaps, that it does something other than suck.”
- Pieter Schoolwerth
Related Events : Exhibitions
"My Vacuum Suucks" a solo show of Artworks by Pieter Schoolwerth at GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, CP > 4pm to 7pm on 19th October to 7th December 2014
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