The Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to announce the seven emerging artists who will show new work as part of the 2013 Invites programme. Launched in 2012, Invites is a unique opportunity for artists without commercial gallery representation to produce a solo show in a dedicated project space at Zabludowicz Collection, London. Artists have been selected as a result of extensive studio visits and all shows will run for six weeks.

Ellen Mara De Wachter, Curator, Zabludowicz Collection says: ‘The Invites artists a unique and highly visible presence at an important stage in their career, just as they are beginning to gain recognition for their work. The artists we invite have strong practices, which we hope will grow from the opportunity to make new work and to gain exposure to public and critical attention. Invites is an important part of the Zabludowicz Collection’s activities and commitment to supporting artists.’

The Zabludowicz Collection believes the time during which an artist is not represented by a commercial gallery is significant for his or her practice, as it is a period when the artist can create without market pressures. Each exhibition of the Invites series results from an open-ended invitation to exhibit at the Zabludowicz Collection and is accompanied by curatorial support and access to material resources provided by the Collection.

Zabludowicz Collection Invites continues the Collection’s ethos of supporting emerging artists at key moments in their careers, beyond collecting. It aims to actively encourage development of artists’ practice by acquiring, commissioning and exhibiting in each of its three locations in London, New York and Sarvisalo, Finland.

Each instalment of Zabludowicz Collection Invites will be launched on the first Thursday of its run, with a special evening viewing from 7 to 9pm. Each show will feature a downloadable interview on zabludowiczcollection.com and a public Artist Presentation, in the form of a performance, talk or other event.

Heather Phillipson (born 1978, London, UK). Phillipson’s work is committed to a playful confrontation with the elasticity of articulation. Her video installations and ‘talking pictures’ (video with live voice) splice tropes from cinema, art, music and literature with audiovisual non-sequiturs and sundry domestic items, to dynamic effect. An accomplished musician and poet, Phillipson deploys sound and language with impertinence: the videos are detours and equivocations that threaten to get out of control. Spurious narratives emerge through the plastering of vivid and degenerated images, pop and profundity, internet discourses and the drollery of internal monologue. The videos jolt between intimacy and detachment, the actual and the virtual. Housed within carefully constructed sculptural elements, attention is drawn to physical relations between audience and screen: the contingency of body and surface. 2012 saw Phillipson’s work included in exhibitions at Flat Time House, Cubitt and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and CIRCA, Newcastle, and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Phillipson was a LUX Associate Artist in 2011/12.

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Related images

  1. Heather Phillipson, Medico-Musico-Metaphysico, 2011, Still, Courtesy the artist
  2. Heather Phillipson, Pressurization, 2012, Still, Courtesy the artist
  3. Heather Phillipson, Catastrophicephaleconomy, 2012, Still, Courtesy the artist