- Adam Chodzko – “Pyramid”
- Nathan Coley – “Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens”
- Tracey Emin – “Baby Things”
- Patrick Tuttofuoco – “Folkestone”
- Mark Wallinger – “Folk Stones”
- Richard Wentworth – “Racinated”
- Pae White – “Barking Rocks”
- Richard Wilson – “18 Holes”
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Adam Chodzko – “Pyramid”
Adam Chodzko with Pyramid, 2008. Photograph © Gautier Deblonde
Title: Pyramid
Artist: Adam Chodzko
Location: Interpretation sign: Coastal Park, below the Leas Cliff Hall and Film screening: Visitor Centre, The Old High Street
Chodzko has long been interested in collapsing past, present and future in his work in order to create alternate realities. In a number of film, slide and photographic works he has invented fictitious scenarios, set in a not-too-distant future, that blend the familiar with the strange. Through fantasy, wonder and make-believe, they compel us to re-consider our sense of place and community. In Pyramid (consisting of a documentary film and information sign) Chodzko is reporting back from a moment in a utopian Folkestone. Keen to puzzle and confound visitors, Chodzko ensnares them in a myth of his own making.
Film 11 mins
Adam Chodzko
Photo: Neil loman
Born UK, 1965. Lives and works in Whitstable, Kent.
Adam Chodzko’s art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, between the community and private space that generate these systems, and between the documents and fictions that describe and guide them. Since 1991 Chodzko has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt - November 2008
Dublin City Art Gallery – Ireland 2007
MAMbo – Bologna 2007
Signal – Malmo, Sweden 2007
Cubitt – London 2002
Recent group exhibitions include
Gastarbeiter/Guestworkers, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin – January 2009
Print the Legend, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh -1 March to 4 May 2008
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade 2007
One Brief Moment, apexart – New York 2006
British Art Show 6, Newcastle (touring), 2005/06
Forthcoming in June 2009 is a project on Governor’s Island, New York, commissioned by Creative Time and a commission by Art on The Underground in October 2009. In 2007 Chodzko was offered a three year AHRC Creative Arts Fellowship with the University of Kent and in 2002 received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY, USA.
See Adam Chodzko's work
www.adamchodzko.com/