September 4 - October 17, 2010, Opening Friday, September 3, 2010, 7 pm

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Charlotte Moth
»The Absent Forms«
2010
Courtesy the artist & Marcelle Alix
Paris

The starting point of the exhibition »The Absent Forms« by Charlotte Moth is a series of photographs taken in a street that, apart from its exceptional architectural forms, is not further defined. Through the use of a range of props it serves as a stage. Both natural and artificial lighting conditions are tested. Screens are used that obstruct views, as well as panels that are immaterialised by reflective surfaces. Moth depicts objects photographically frozen in motion and addresses issues related to the topos of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility. In doing so, she falls back onto formal and content-related considerations regarding the production and reception of photographic images in general.

As within the frame of the »Travelogue«, a collection of photographs by the artist that has been constantly expanding since 1999, this series of semantically ambiguous images continues examining the possibilities of transferring research material into independent works. As a photographic series, as a photo-film - accompanied by text fragments by the curator and writer Francesco Pedraglio -, as part of a spatial installation, and as the basis for the music by the artist and sound maker Sean Dower, the photographed event of the empty street becomes part of Charlotte Moth's artistic practice in the form of a collage, without determining it in a permanent way or risking exhaustion.

In repeated recourse to this specific event, which is always further delayed in regard to medium and time, a method manifests itself that explores the process-oriented character and possible manifestations or modes of reception of artistic ideas, not marking them as created ex nihilo, but as part of an economy of exchange, that allows them to circulate in a network of incessantly posed questions and responses.

The deliberate exclusion of referential definitions created by the images and the works in open series enables avenues of thought and room for assumptions and imaginations. For moments of unfolding, where the timelessness and dislocation of the event replicates itself. By directly referring to the specific exhibition venue and context, this cognitive freedom generated by a specific site is activated in different ways, and the time- and placelessness of the photographed moment, in its respective updating, is tipped into the concreteness of the time frame of the exhibition.

The opening is accompanied by a film projection with live sound by Sean Dower.

An extensive publication will appear in conjunction with Charlotte Moth's exhibition.

Charlotte Moth (born 1978 in Carshalton, UK, lives in Paris) studied at the Slade school of Art (UCL), London (UK) and the Fine Art department of the Jan van Eyck Acadiemie, Maastricht (NL). She was resident at Le Pavillon of Le Palais de Tokyo Paris in 2007, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in 2008, and Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede (D) in 2009. Solo exhibitions in 2010 include »Comma 18«, Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK), »remade«, Gallery Marcelle Alix, Paris (F), »The Black Room«, Studio Sandra Recio, Geneva (CH); 2009 »Behind Every Surface There is a Mystery«, project space »Schaufenster Kunstverein« at Kunstverein Dusseldorf (D); 2008 »Potential Narratives«, Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Group exhibitions in 2010 include »Associations«, Arcade London (UK), »After Architects«, Kunsthalle Basel (CH), »Strange comforts (afforded by the profession)«, Kunsthalle Basel (CH), »Les Interlocuteurs«, Ecole des Beaux-Arts Toulouse (F), »Une Exposition (du) Sensible«, Centre d'art contemporain la Synagoge de Delme (F), 2009 »Its not for reading, Its for making«, FormContent, London (UK), 2008 »Pavillon 7« at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F).

With the support of Land Niedersachsen, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sparkasse Lüneburg, Institut français - Bureau de la création artistique - Arts plastiques and Culturesfrance, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, Stadt Lüneburg and Ville de Paris, direction des affaires culturelles