WE HAVE BEEN BUSY. WE HAVE BEEN PREPARING. WE NOW INVITE YOU TO MY BLACK HOLE.
MY BLACK HOLE
Erica Eyres
Michelle Hannah
WASHINGTON GARCIA
ARCH 24 (UNIT 13)
EASTVALE PLACE
GLASGOW
G3 8QG
PREVIEW: FRIDAY 12H FEBRUARY 2010, 7 – 10PM
Washington Garcia is pleased to present MY BLACK HOLE a collaborative work by Erica Eyres and Michelle Hannah, the second in a series of production residencies hosted at Washington Garcia Gallery.
During this residency Eyres and Hannah have inhabited the gallery over the dark winter months to produce an equally dark performance video titled Earthrise accompanied by a new series of photographic works . Emulating the format of a psychic channel late-night talk show, Earthrise employs the rhetoric and aesthetics surrounding mystical self-help manuals. The work makes satirical comment on society’s obsession with alternative therapies while addressing our innate longing for resolving existential questions of existence, faith and meaning. In this new body of work Eyres and Hannah expose the language of self-help literature as meaningless jargon, through astute use of repetition and precise comedic timing. The new photographic series further depicts both artists in–character as they masquerade in the ambiguity of hyper-stylized cult recruitment propaganda.
Washington Garcia is also pleased to offer a newly editioned poster to coincide with MY BLACK HOLE.
Erica Eyres & Michelle Hannah
Cornelius
2010
594 x 841 mm
UV- Coated Poster
Edition of 50
Signed and Numbered
GBP £40
Notes for Editor:
Washington Garcia
Arch 24 (Unit 13)
Eastvale Place
Glasgow, G3 8QG
Preview: 12th February 2010, 7 – 10pm
Exhibition Runs: 12th Februray – 12th March 2010
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12-6pm or by appointment
* We are no longer open on Sundays unless by prior arrangement. *
CONTACT: washingtongarciagallery@gmail.com, www.washingtongarciagallery.com
Artists Biography:
Erica Eyres was born in Winnipeg, Canada 1980. She has recently exhibited at Rokeby, London; Haas & Fisher, Zurich and the Dumbo Video Festival, New York. She was short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing prize in 2009 and will be exhibiting at Prussian Projekte, Nottingham in 2010. She is represented by Rokeby, London.
Michelle Hannah was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She is a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art MFA programme and has exhibited in Berlin, Belfast and Leipzig. She has most recently received a subpoena from Jay Jopling for unlawful impersonation and will be artist in residence at the CCA, Glasgow in March 2010. She is the founder of The Kingdom of Muin.
