Petra Hudcova & Ross Knipe

PETRA HUDCOVA & ROSS KNIPE


1st - 24th June 2008

It’s not easy to be nowhere



‘My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.‘

Fernando Pessoa



It’s not easy to be nowhere is a collaboration between visual artist Petra Hudcova and artist and composer Ross Knipe. They set out to combine their individual interests as well as their separate tools to create a single conversation in the spaces of the gallery. The sheds become containers for fragmented landscapes of the mind which are filled with the outcome of a series of discussions and interactions of disjointed sound and moving imagery. Their starting point was a string of contemplations on the possibilities of the contents of such spaces. They wanted the sheds to serve as a metaphor for giant psyches that are overflowing with impulses and urges.



Petra Hudcova is a visual artist working predominantly with still and moving images and installation. Her work relates to the notion of ‘a moment of the impossible’ understood as an experience of something that happens when the time-space code becomes irrelevant. She is mainly interested in the moment when time seemingly shatters or disappears and one is left experiencing a different mode to the one that is inherent to our language. She seeks to reproduce this moment which is embedded within the configuration of circumstances and doubt. Her current work derives from the interest in implementation of image drops into space creating an orchestra of passing moments. Petra graduated from Central St. Martin’s College with an MA in 2006 and is currently based in East London. She has exhibited her work in Britain and internationally.

For more information please visit www.petrahudcova.com



Ross Knipe is an artist and a composer working in TV, film and advertising. He has also been active in the underground dance scene releasing under various monikers including Pussycuts, A.R.S, Somos and Bammer, producing remixes for the likes of Moby and A Man Called Adam. Bammer also composed the soundtrack for the documenting CD Rom of "Contents: 31 Tiensevest" by artists Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings.

Ross is currently studying sound arts at the University of the Arts, exploring concepts and representations of space and the musicality of environments. One of his areas of interest is looking at individual gestures and actions and their cumulative effects on specific and global environments, including the physiological, social and psychological impacts on people and communities, as well as the creative and regenerative potential of gesture in space.