Ballroom

Lynne Marsh
Screening
Friday, November 6th, 2009 - Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Screening is proud to present Lynne Marsh’s spellbinding video loop Ballroom. Ballroom presents a woman, athletic and glamorous, suspended upside down in the centre of a dancehall – the Rivoli Ballroom in South London - her glittering sequined costume reflecting light, like a mirror ball, onto the backdrop of a sumptuous interior. As she spins around with increasing speed, sending the reflections whirling, the soundtrack reaches a crescendo. The theatrical spectacle, similar to a magician-illusionist or circus-aerial act, leaves the audience wondering if they are witness to an illusion or a real event producing a subtle uncanniness.

Ballroom makes use of the aesthetics of game spaces and animation to fuse or blend the figure with object and architectural space. The video work creates a more complex phenomenal space where a filmed location appears as simulation and/or an imaginary space is created through a reconfiguration of the ‘real’ world.

Lynne Marsh was born in Canada and divides her time between Montréal, Berlin and London. She attended Concordia University in Montréal and completed her MA at Goldsmiths in London. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal and Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London. Recent group exhibitions include Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial and There is no audience, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Her videos have also featured in screenings at Babylon Mitte, Berlin, the BFI London and Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, London. Marsh’s work will be presented in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Globe Gallery in Newcastle and as part of Catastrophe, the Québec City Biennial in 2010.

Marsh is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Herefordshire.