February 10, 2004
Free For MTV
Free for MTV
The Valentines Show
by Sylvi Temple
Central St Martins College of Art and Design Window Gallery , 107/9 Charing Cross (7th - 27th February 2004)
Maison Bertaux, Greek Street, (7th - 26th February 2004)
Private viewing - By invitation only (Maison Bertaux, 28 Greek Street Soho W.1)
Sylvi Temple’s black and white photographic installation takes an unromantic squint at love for sale.
Mapping the territory of fumbled transactions in a Soho back street with the contract made by celebrity and the 'showbiz media' pimp, Temple suggests an essential similarity of trade.
All of the images in the series are of entry points. Entrance into - or out from - unsentimental thinking, but sympathetic to the idea of dirty reality; living outside of the consumptive and epidemic need for vain glory that has the highstreet in its grip.
The images are initiatory spaces; uncomfortable, even unhappy, mostly unforgiving interior worlds. Dark dreams. Jazz. They are Alley Cat images stolen late at night; specifically cinematic, defiantly imperfect and consistently empathetic.
The etiquette of vice meant taking only a single roll of film without flash or tripod on a freezing cold winter's night, but for Temple the experience is as important as the product; the viewing as important as the making. The narrative of image is more substantial than the demands of surface.
Free for MTV is showing partly within The Windows Gallery on London's Charing Cross Road. Set into the walls Of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (but curated independently), it is a maverick space that showcases explorational work in all media to a mass audience - literally.
The series of photographs continues in more conventional style but in a no more conventional setting - Soho's famous Salon de The, Maison Bertaux, in Greek street - where Michelle's croissants fuel the inspiration of London's avant garde.
Sylvi Temple has worked in the arts and media throughout her life but has only recently started showing her own photographic work. She also writes.
This show has been supported by generous helpings of experienced guidance - from the good citizens of The Horse Hospital.
For which she says a very big Ta!
For further information / images, please contact :
contact Sylvi Temple at BabyArts
sylvi@babyarts.co.uk
Show sponsored by Bayeux fine photographic printing. 78 Newman St. London W1
020 7436 1066
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
Bloomsbury
London
WC1N 1HX
020 7833 3644
www.thehorsehospital.com
posted by James on February 10, 2004 11:27 AM