Elysium, Swansea
Fri 14 Sept – Sat 14 Oct
Reflecting on her residency at the Elysium gallery and her time in Swansea, Lauren Heckler’s mixed media exhibition reflects her fascination with the discovery of the local. Exploring the boundaries between the actual and the possible, fiction and reality, she places the studio and the city in dialogue by making the outside into a studio of its own and the studio into a place where the outside world can be reinterpreted.
With an emphasis on human connectedness and the desire for interaction, the use of time-based media and theatrical performance dominate Heckler’s work, with conversation playing a key role in the development of her ideas.
Previous exhibitions include images of acrobats reacting to the interior of Brighton and Hove active buses, captured to explore the relationship of humans with their surroundings; an extension of this involved performers waving at unsuspecting pedestrians from the top of a double decker bus. Her use of alternative spaces, also including work on the London Underground car parks and public gardens, show her fascination with these relationships between the actual and the possible, human interaction and the removal of boundaries.
As the co-founder of Site Sit, which creates site-responsive work, this exhibition adds Swansea and the Elysium gallery to Lauren Heckler’s list of explored local spaces.
Admission: free Info: 079 8092 5449 / www.elysiumgallery.com (CB)