Felix Gmelin's 'I Feel so Divided' at Vilma Gold, London, 10 Oct - 9 Nov

Exhibition Description:

Vilma Gold will be presenting an exhibition of new work by Felix Gmelin. In "I Feel so Divided" he has created a spatial montage using painting, photography, film, and sound that explores the abilities of cinema and the visual arts to organize and disorganize the senses.

Gmelin has included copied, interpreted and quoted excerpts from a 1926 German documentary about a school for blind children, fragments from Vsevolod Pudovkin's "Asynchronism as a principle for sound film" and Diderot's "Letter on the Blind", and more. These have been combined with a new series of paintings which depict children judged "good" or "bad" by the Nazi regime. This exhibition forms an open constellation of historical and iconographic associations, continuities and ruptures.

I've got a machine for seeing, called eyes
To hear, I've got ears
To talk, a mouth
But they feel like separate machines
there's no unity
A person ought to feel unified
I feel like I'm divided
Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot Le Fou, 1965

Description:

The Image: Felix Gmelin
I Feel so Divided 2008
Courtesy of the artist and Vilma Gold, London

The artist: Felix Gmelin (b.1962 in Heidelberg) lives and works in Stockholm. He has participated twice in the Venice Biennale, 2007 and 2003; in the October Salon 2006, Belgrade, and also in the Berlin Biennial 2006. Gmelin has had solo shows at institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt, Gasworks, London and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö.

Full Contact Details:

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