Bodies-materials-spaces

Let Yourself Fall (Between the Solid and the Void)

Let Yourself Fall (Between the Solid and the Void)

The Meffan, 20 West High Street, Forfar DD8 1BB

26^th July – 23^rd August 2014

In this exhibition Helen Angell-Preece expands her ongoing fascination with Architecture and Space, and how Place gives us a sense of ourselves ‘Being’ here.

She will investigate the sculptural concerns of the Solid and the Void, by dividing the Gallery Spaces at the Meffan with her architectural constructions, creating a physical journey for the Viewer to negotiate and experience for themselves.

A new video projection will enable us to explore the vast, semi-derelict expanse of space of a former Dundee Jute Mill. We experience the space from the camera’s viewpoint, glimpsing the body itself exploring the area – an arm, shoulder or torso, moving through the exaggerated perspective of the Industrial scale room.

The artist intends to explore the Potentiality of ‘Being’ in a space – the feeling of inhabiting / becoming the space; and how much this has to do with materiality, boundaries and our own body movement.

Reverse Print on Acrylic

Sequence2 canvas1-4 (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital reverse print on acrylic, aluminium fixings

Each Print 32 x 26cm

Installation view Sequence2 canvas1-4 (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital reverse print on acrylic, aluminium fixings

Each Print 32 x 26cm

Sequence2 canvas9-11 (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital reverse print on acrylic, aluminium fixings

Each Print 45 x 37cm

Installation view Sequence2 canvas9-11 (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital reverse print on acrylic, aluminium fixings

Each Print 45 x 37cm

Lamda Digital Photographs

Turn 2 (Moving Stills series) 2008
Lambda digital photograph on Dibond
99.5 x 26cm

Interference (Moving Stills series) 2008
Lambda digital photograph on Dibond
90 x 41cm

Reel (Moving Stills series) 2008
Lambda digital photograph on Dibond
150 x 50cm

Down, Black (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital Photographic Print on crystal archival paper

50 x 37.5

Down, White (Moving Stills series) 2008

Digital Photographic Print on crystal

archival paper

50 x 37.5

Sequence2 canvas6(Moving Stills series) 2008 Lambda digital photograph on Dibond

Sequence2 canvas5(Moving Stills series) 2008 Lambda digital photograph on Dibond

Sequence2 canvas7(Moving Stills series) 2008 Lambda digital photograph on Dibond

Sequence2 canvas8(Moving Stills series) 2008 Lambda digital photograph on Dibond

Sequence2 canvas5-8(Moving Stills series) 2008 Lambda digital photograph on Dibond 42 x 35cm [/full_width]

Stage (Moving Stills series) 2008

Lambda digital photograph

150 x 100cm

Always ‘there’ 2001

Always 'there'

The work is driven by a fascination with the issue of our ‘Being here’; of our awareness of ourselves as existing ‘within’ the world.

always ‘There ’ is a large-scale video projection immersing the spectator in a virtual world of movement through the urban landscape. A superimposed coloured ‘dot’ or map-marker becomes the hypnotic and constant presence or reference point throughout this exploration.

Distorted projection screens form a temporary architecture, installed to disrupt the viewer’s journey, forcing them to negotiate and become acutely aware of their own passage through space and time.

At once both playful and unnerving, the artist’s concern is to evoke an intensified awareness of self and environment using contrasting materials to disrupt/reorganise everyday spatial relationships.

Always ‘There' 2001

2 x 3 x 3m Video Projection

Welcome 2002

Welcome

This work explores the issue of how we experience space, how we relate to our surroundings. In the construction of walls and the laying down of borders a sense of our own ‘Being there’ is also established.

Welcome begins to draw out a personal space for the viewer to inhabit. 3 vertical walls delineate a minimum human space – the dimensions relating to a shower cubicle or phone box.

A circle on the floor marks the spot:
‘You are here’.

However, alike to awareness of one’s own presence, this architecture is only temporary and contingent.

Red pathways signal elsewhere. The transparent walls are distorted by light and the image of cobbles – that material most usually solid and stable beneath our feet.

It is this duality of attraction and apprehension experienced in a new place, intensifying a feeling of self-awareness, that the artist wishes to communicate in the work.

Welcome 2002

Screenprinted Acrylic Sheet 3 x 3 x 2.5m