Eline McGeorge
It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening of Eline McGeorge’s solo show Travelling Doubles 2 in the gallery Friday April 25th from 5-8 pm. The exhibition period is April 26th – May 31st.
Eline McGeorge is engaged with the act of drawing. Presenting collages
with coloured tape, photo print and pencil; crayon or stain on
sculptures of wood; framed pencil drawings, watercolours and an
animation of drawings, McGeorge unfolds her drawing though different
media. Drawing has traditionally been used for sketching - for the
process of creating a piece. McGeorge takes advantage of these exact
same qualities. Not meant as a sketch for something else but to
underline process, transformation and the non-stable.
She has altered the gallery space by setting up a wall which also
functions as a screen. It even functions as a sheet of paper. Projected
onto it, are 400 animated drawings that originate from the same sheet
of A4. Each drawing has been scanned, then erased, filled in and
scanned anew, letting each frame be constructed from the destruction of
the one before. The drawings are given a temporality, a narration
unfolded in time and through transformation.
Time, movement, scale and space are concepts that are found in all of
McGeorge’s works. The sculptures of wood resemble architectural models
in human scale. They vary from every angle, head in different
directions like movements, caught in a glimpse of time. Inverted
perspectives and tension between surfaces and depths are part of the
drawings, prints and collages, where Modernist architecture meets
landscapes. News paper clippings, film stills and Norwegian tourist
brochures from the 60s are juxtaposed to McGeorge’s own photographs.
The blended spaces, perspectives and temporalities form a notion of
estrangement and discontinuity. An assumption that space is
dissolvable, multifaceted and ephemeral. Just as the title implies, Travelling Doubles is a displacement of the self on a journey in time and space.
McGeorge’s works are related to the historical avantgarde’s Cubism,
Futurism and Russian Constructivism, as well as the later
Deconstructivism. Still, the works point forward by reassembling things
differently and making something new out of the materials, situations
and ideas that are already here.
McGeorge’s abstract scapes and topographies have been exhibited
at e.g. Fotogalleriet, Olso 2007, Hollybush Gardens, London 2007,
Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen 2007, Stenersen Museet, Oslo
2006, Momentum, Moss 2006 and P.S.1., New York 2002. Kirkhoff
included her work in the group show Form Matters, May - June 2007.
Eline McGeorge holds a Master of Fine Art from Goldsmith’s College,
London, and has tended both the National College of Fine Art, Bergen,
and Städelschule, Frankfurt. She was born 1970 in Norway and now lives
and works in London and Oslo.
