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Zoe Mendelson ‘Angela’s
Chronicles’ 6th May – 11th June. (Wed – Sat
12 – 6) Gallery Talk - Sun 6th June 4pm. Zoe Mendelson - in conversation with - Annie Blinkhorn Annie Blinkhorn is acting editor or Erotic Review and has written on sex and life style for GQ, the Daily Mirror, Jack and A regular column for the Independent on Sunday and has appeared on Carlton late-night debate programme Thursday Night Live and is a regular guest on LBC late-night phone-ins. Drawings on the gallery walls seep onto items of antique furniture such as cabinets & book cases. The work takes the form of a stream of consciousness narrative loosely based on certain events in ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by Garcia Marquez. PRESS RELEASE Zoë
Mendelson: ‘Angela’s Chronicles’ The work takes the form of an incomplete and abstracted narrative, loosely based on events in ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by Garcia Marquez, a drawn stream of consciousness, a Victorian gothic erotic drama, creeping and unfolding. Angela, brought up for marriage is coerced into marrying a virtual stranger in an over-the-top, festivalised wedding. On her wedding night, following discussions with her girlfriends, she takes a small suitcase of fakery with her to her marital home, in order that she may fool her husband and show off a stained sheet in her bridal courtyard the following morning. However, she never uses it and her husband jilts her on her wedding night following the discovery that his new wife is not a virgin. Angela spends the next seventeen years writing to him. The focus of the piece is the construction of an elaborate lie. Drawings and paintings centre on artifice. A theatrical landscape is grown. Festive and fierce, daydream-like sexual imagery runs across the gallery walls and seeps onto furniture. A writing desk with a hinged lid is left open to reveal a hidden painting, over-adorned with a chandelier and elaborate cornicing. Too much delicacy makes it look heavy and ridiculous, the over decoration serving as a metaphor for displaced female sexuality or suspended desire. A birdcage spills a drawing. The apparently decorative style refers to such contrasting conventions as children’s book illustration and erotic drawing. Meanwhile, codes of politeness are constantly established and broken down in equal measure. Lavish interiors spill out into seedier, but similarly exaggerated motel room porn. Lewd acts are described alongside elegant drawing-room scenes. For images please contact Amy Whitworth : 0207 093 0628 |
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