HOME DISCOMFORTS

SEAGER is pleased to present , ‘Home Discomforts’ an exhibition of 4 Lewisham artists from Brockley : Chris Marshall, Liz Harrison, Dohyun Baek and Nancy Singh. The project is curated by Irene SEAGER - founder and director of SEAGER art gallery and produced by Bevis Halsey-Perry

The inspiration for this project was to showcase a domestic space that functions as an expression of identity and personal vision. The curator has reimagined her own house as a canvas for experimentation that challenges the bourgeois setting of a Victorian house; where the artworks interact with the architecture and existing interiors through spatial interventions. The end result is a creation of two environments where each room tells its own story - each with its own atmosphere, theme, and aesthetics - inviting viewers to make new and twisted associations and connections within this familiar architectural structure.

Through merging of 4 artists’s practices within a domestic setting, ‘Home Discomforts’ immerses visitors into a space where the boundary between art and everyday life is blurred by subverting the conventional expectations of art.

Environment 1 - Studio/Garage

Spectre 2033 installation by Chris Marshall

A site-specific installation defined by the footprint of a Fiat 500 and the studio’s previous use as a garage.

Throughout his career, Chris Marshall has always been concerned with expanding the concept of sculpture. In his new installation Spectre 2033 Chris has created a phantom representation of the Fiat 500 using elements from the car itself such as car carpets, lining and insulation, netting and car tyre dust particulate. The car as a classic symbol of mobility and status symbol is transformed from a hard metal object of utility into something visually soft and quite surreal.

Materials: Car carpets for boot, passengers and driver. Car bonnet sound insulation lining. Netting. Black fabric car cover. Car tyre dust particulate.

'Red Pool' and 'Clickety Clack' video works by Liz Harris

Liz Harris’s video/film artistic practice focuses on the temporality and duality of time, providing a focal point and symbol for a disappearing and engulfed time space.

'Red Pool'

A video shot on the Cornish coast of fragments from the architecture of the Geever tin mines. The red iron oxide pools sited within the coastal mine have an ominous presence with pools of obsolescence, chemical residue from the mines, evidence of the mine's history and a forgotten past.

'Clickety Clack'

‘Clickety Clack’ is a video installation exhibiting the knitting of a milk enriched breast, replicating and destroying its form alongside the constant dripping of milk.

Environment 2 - Living Room

The installation in the living room camouflages all visible domestic elements, to move the context as far from a private experience as possible, as if the visitor is not entering an authentic domestic space. The bold decorative elements such as artificial grass, pond netting, musical instruments and furniture wrapped-up in antique linen provide a rich dream-like decorative background for the artworks.

Dohyun Baek

Dohyun Baek’s practice reflects the angst of his generation in the midst of Internet culture, economic turmoil and identity crisis.

Nancy Singh

Nancy Singh’s practice explores surrealism and absurdity, with a view to question conventional though and unravel the unconscious mind