Internalized Atmosphere
Saatchi Lates
The II closed 2021 with a triptych of performances
by three young female artists for our participation in the “Saatchi Lates”
program at Saatchi Gallery: Gabriella Pitanga, Maria Celina Val and Amy
Gillies. This program was an additional
gesture to the already running London Grads Show. All the performances took
place in Gallery 8 of the Saatchi building where the graduates of 2021 Kingston
School of Art each presented a piece from their degree project. Our approach was
to look at these two bodies as a whole experience- the three performances and
the exhibited pieces- wanting them intertwined and in a briefly temporal
communication of some sort, but also think about not thinning the Individual
work.
Artists
︎T he Kingston School of Art 2021 Graduates Participatiom in London Grads Show was remotely curated by Shahrzad Jahan while she was in Tehran.
The II closed 2021 with a triptych of performances
by three young female artists for our participation in the “Saatchi Lates”
program at Saatchi Gallery: Gabriella Pitanga, Maria Celina Val and Amy
Gillies. This program was an additional
gesture to the already running London Grads Show. All the performances took
place in Gallery 8 of the Saatchi building where the graduates of 2021 Kingston
School of Art each presented a piece from their degree project. Our approach was
to look at these two bodies as a whole experience- the three performances and
the exhibited pieces- wanting them intertwined and in a briefly temporal
communication of some sort, but also think about not thinning the Individual
work.
For this reason, our contribution to the show
had an overall title called “Internalized Atmosphere” which was pointing energy
towards the group show, but still each performance kept its own title which directed
energy out of it- title within title -. All three pieces
shared a ritualistic nature that was manifested each time through a different
dynamic, colors, movement, or words and were inspired by the ideas conversing
in the space.
Artists