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OPENING: 5 February 18h30
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exhibition
OFFSPRING
Lalie Schewadron
Art and science are just as similar as they are different. Both strive to explore new territories, whilst still holding different views on rationality and the sensibility of ideas. Lalie Schewadron’s unique work can be seen as a mix of both.
On the basis of scientific thinking, she invents new stunning and breath-taking formats that are open to interpretation. The art she creates is a hybrid of the scientific and the artistic, which are, of course, impossible in scientific imagery. With digital writing, Lalie Schewadron stews up a world of science, nature, technology, combining the new media with more traditional techniques. Her world is full of movement, which stimulates the spectators’ minds and forces them to reflect on nature, fiction, the present and the improbable.
The Lucy Mackintosh Gallery is delighted to exhibit a new installation of digital painting and projections by Lalie Schewadron along with works by Muriel Waldvogel between 5th February and 14th March 2009.
Lalie Schewadron obtained an MA in Fine Art at Central St. Martins University of the Arts, London, after having comTexte français non disponiblepleted a Master of Science in Management at Boston University, Massachusetts. She was a finalist for the Celeste Painting Prize in 2006 and won the Drawing Conclusion competition by ArtSEEN journal in 2007. She has exhibited at New Art ’07 at MPG Contemporary Boston and for the Helen Keller International Award at the Collins Gallery in Glasgow. She was born in 1971 and currently works and lives in Boston and Lausanne.
... "A single particle is hanging in space. It appears to be searching for stability but without finding it. It is lonely for a while, or at least until another individual suddenly emerges. They are about to accidently meet, link up together to create a new structure, a new shape, possibly even a new life form. It may be more or less stable: it may survive for a while, or quickly break apart. We don’t know yet. But regardless, this could be a some sort of a beginning, or maybe it is the end?"...
Life Form Stories presents a possible destiny of a single particle. It is inspired in part by the concept of the original primeval soup, which is believed to constitute some sort of ocean dating from three to four thousand millions years ago. In this soup, some early organic substances were randomly combined into larger molecules, thereby progressively creating complicated structures and ‘primitive life forms’. Over time, little by little, these new structures and life forms continued to evolve: by binding to each other, breaking down to smaller pieces, or even sometimes mutating, all in which creating other life forms.
By displaying hypothetical and random narratives, the work attempts to draw on a world made of individuals who are in a constant state of formation and flux. They bind, group, react, and replicate each other in an improbable attempt to search for stability. Could this stability be reached by a new configuration or set of spherical rules, or is it the perpetual movement and the continuing growth that matter the most? These questions are left to the viewer.
Lalie Schewadron’s Offspring
Life Form Stories
December 2008
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