The Edge of Everything, HALLWALLS
Kelly Richardson: The Edge of Everything
HALLWALLS
January 12 – February 16, 2008
Opening Saturday, January 12, 8-11pm
Buffalo, NY
UK-based Canadian artist Kelly Richardson’s single channel video work focuses on the resolution of the sublime from ordinary or flawed moments, amassing an accumulation of often conflicting sensations. Richardson is interested in creating contemplative spaces of rapturous visual allure, loaded with double meaning and exploring the simultaneity of the magnificent and the dreadful. Cinematic language is used as a means of concocting landscapes that are part real, part imagined, a hybrid reality that accentuates and questions our ambiguous place in the world. There are no other protagonists in Richardson’s work, other than perhaps Time itself. Even within scenes where one might expect a human figure, none are evident. Instead, Richardson is enfolding the viewer into successive imaginary spaces within which the essential ingredients are simultaneity of action and sensation. Action—even when limited—repeats forever. Sensation—borne of repeated action and a seductive, engrossing image—blossoms to fill and expand the moment. There is no single endpoint to this heady blend of elements—Richardson’s works evoke the complex and contradictory sensation of life: anxious, hilarious, ominous, rapturous. The edge of everything is the springboard from which Richardson hurls her work and the viewer into the ether of possibility.HALLWALLS presents a series of single channel videos including the North American debut of Wagons Roll (2007), Ferman Drive (2005) and The Sequel (2004) alongside Exiles of the Shattered Star (2006) and howthedevil (2002). An online publication featuring texts by John Massier, curator of HALLWALLS (Buffalo, NY) and Assistant Curator Crystal Mowry (KW|AG) will be available at www.kwag.on.ca.HALLWALLS341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY, USA716.854.1694www.hallwalls.org