Jig-saw (jeu de société)

The first collaborative installation by artists Lucy McKenzie, Lucile Desamory and Birgit Megerle. Initiated by McKenzie following her invitation to work with the Talbot Rice in the round room as a precursor to her exhibition in the main space in 2006, and the first institutional showing of Desamory and Megerles’ work in the UK.

Though close friends for a number of years, the artists involvement in each others practice has never gone further than support and facilitation. They share in their work and attitude an experience of and fidelity to the importance of collective experience; all coming from and acknowledging artistic communities that have sustained and inspired them. They use this opportunity to work intensely on a mutual and totally site-specific exploration of their common interests and personal connections.

Lucile Desamory (1977) is a native of Brussels, self educated and currently living in Berlin. She has shown her animated films and performed live across Europe, most recently at The Foundation Cartier, Paris, and Volksbuehne, Berlin with musician Kevin Blechdom. Working with found material such as stock sport photography and encyclopaedic illustration Desamory produces rich and dreamlike collages which in total create a document to sensitised human corporeality. Recent gallery exhibitions include Eldorado, at Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels and in the Nomadeoase, Hamburg. Desamory Djs professionally and has organised live events since 2001.

Lucy McKenzie (1977) is born and based in Glasgow and has shown widely in Europe and the USA, previously in Edinburgh at Inverleith House in 2001 in the collaborative exhibition ‘Heavy Duty’ with Paulina Olowska. Though collaboration is an important part of her practice, she also produces installations alone, most recently at Metro Pictures in New York. Her work is concerned with the interface between private desires and social space, often uses tertiary forms such as cartoons, interior design and public art, and is manifested in murals, prints, writing, curation and performance. She also runs the vinyl record label Decemberism.

Birgit Megerle (1975) studied in Hamburg and lives in Berlin. In 1997-2000 as part of the artist collective Akademie Isotrop she co-produced performance, music, self publishing and visual art, and in 2001-02 she facilitated the artists run event room Favoriten with Astrid Surkowa in Berlin. Megerle currently concentrates on small scale canvas paintings and drawings. Her work is inspired by historical feminist and avant-garde models and their translation into contemporary paradigms such as independent music, using tableau, portraiture and exploration of pictorial space. She has exhibited recently in the Prague Biennale 2005, at Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels and Galerie Neu, Berlin.

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Jig-saw (jeu de société)
Installation
Lucy McKenzie, Birgit Megerle, Lucile Desamory
Ort: round room

Stationen:
22.10.05 - 03.12.05 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
09.03.06 - 04.06 Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin (in abgewandelter Form)