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Axel Antas Bettina Buck Sam Dargan Erica Eyres Doug Fishbone Simon Keenleyside Leung Chi Wo Raul Ortega Ayala Ian Pedigo Gideon Rubin Michael Samuels Mathew Sawyer Conrad Ventur WITH (with you.co.uk) |
Erica Eyres is interested in the human condition; through video and drawing, the artist utilises humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind human behaviour. In her videos, the artist has historically utilized prosthetics, costume and methods of disguise to transform herself into numerous different characters within any one work. In more recent Eyres has moved away from using herself and employed actors to play the roles she creates often borrowing from the aesthetic and artificiality of low budget television or film. Most recently Eyres has utilised archival footage from the 70’s and 80’s, from self-help tapes to TV documentaries, to create cinematic collages that incorporate biographical details and narratives. Her current films experiment with a documentary style to investigate the viewer’s subjectivity as much as their involvement in her characters representation. This development in her practice combines previous elements - the awkward and revealing personal narratives; a wry understanding of human fallibility and her knowledge of tv and how it is consumed - in a succinct fashion. In her drawings Eyres distorts images from magazines and textbooks to form disquieting characters that pose self-consciously for the viewer, appearing awkwardly clumsy and vulnerable. In each instance the viewer is persuaded to engage in the power games instigated by watching and being watched, though the experience is never wholly satisfying. Rather, through identification with the character, one is left with a sense of fracture, conscious of ones own flaws and deficiencies. Eyres is interested in psychology and the study of human behaviour and is particularly fascinated by personality disorders, compulsive behaviours and states of desperation. The artist often revisits co-dependent and predatory relationships, especially between parents and children, in an investigation of why such relationships function, where behaviours stem from and how they are perpetuated by the patterns of day-to-day life. The roles of females in these situations are also of particular importance in the artistís work. Eyres questions the commonly perceived notions of women, and offers a critique of the construction of female identity. Erica Eyres is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg living and working in Glasgow having graduated with a MA from Glashow School of Art in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and the Kunsthaus, Erfurt, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at PS1 New York, The ICA Winnipeg, The Akureyri Art Museum, The Collective, Edinburgh and more. Her work is in important international collections including The Rubell Family Collection, Miami and The David Roberts Collection, London. |
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