Sarah Foqué & James Johnson-Perkins: New Work
10 July – 29 August 2009
Open: 10 – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday
private view: 6pm, Thursday 9th July
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road
Camden
London
NW1 7AY
nearest tube: Camden Town
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) are pleased to present an exhibition of new site specific work from artists Sarah Foqué and James Johnson-Perkins.
Through vividly coloured materials, both artists will respond to the Cecil Sharp House building, the home of the EFDSS, as a starting point for work as they attempt to directly interact with its community and interior.
Responding to a site's history and the movement of people through it, Sarah Foqué creates installations with straight bands of colour. Drawing on histories of philosophy and anthropology, Foqué focuses on the mapping and exploration of space and boundaries. Typically using coloured tape as a material to visualise her understanding of the space she is working in, Foqué will create a fluid portrait of the space and its activities, alluding to traditional dance figures.
James Johnson-Perkins utilises references to popular culture of the 1980s to create works of play and nostalgia. His installation, spanning all four storeys of the building stairwell, will attempt to build the tallest structure ever made from Mega-Bloks. This construction will represent an absurd May Pole in the centre of the building, at odds with the surrounding architecture.
Artist-in-residence Matthew Cowan will be holding a free open studio event during the private view and on Friday 10 July, 10am - 5pm.
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James and I were invited by the artist in residency at Cecil Sharp House to create an installation. Cecil Sharp house is the base for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The installation makes use of this context. The big squares with 3 rectangles symbolise a movement in English Morris dancing. Further they create a rhythm Throughout the building which reasonates of the music accompanying that same dance. In the staircase James built a big tower of Mega blocks. This tower symbolises a May pole. My lines follow the staircase round the May pole like a dance incorporating the architectural form.
