Fri 23 May 2014 - Sat 05 Jul 2014

Gallery Opening Times: Mon – Sat: 10am-5.30pm. Entry is FREE.

Marie von Heyl
Of Occasional Tables and Alternative Endings
 
This exhibition of new work by Berlin based Marie von Heyl employs video, installation, drawing and text to explore an ongoing interest in domestic interiors and mundane objects that is central to her practice. Her work playfully dances around things, pointing at the unexpectedly beautiful, tracing the uncanny and tapping into the absurd. Often triggered by linguistic nitpicking, she aims to catch objects in the act of transcending their original context.

Here, she starts from the English term ‘occasional table’ which resonates with her suspicion that an object may posses multiple states of being, independent from its common use. If an object becomes a table only on occasion, what are its alternatives? What else may it be at other times?

Picking up these loose threads, the artist shifts contexts and alters the states of things to highlight unconventional ways of reading and to enable alternative endings.
 
Associated events:

Artist’s talk: Sat 7 Jun, 2.30pm, FREE

The artist will discuss the exhibition and her wider practice.

Screening: Ubu-Roulette, Tue 17 Jun, 7.30pm, FREE

In association with the Phoenix Gallery exhibition, artist Marie von Heyl along with Joachim Stein bring their monthly avant-garde artist’s film event from Berlin to Exeter. A chance to see some rare, bizarre and challenging moving image work that you are unlikely to come across anywhere else, randomly selected from UbuWeb’s incredible on-line film archive.

Drawing From The Exhibition: Mon 16 & Sat 21 Jun, 10.30am – 4.00pm, £28 (£24)

One day workshop. Take a guided tour and respond to the exhibition in a variety of media, including drawing, painting and sculpture.

VENUE: PHOENIX GALLERY

MORE INFO: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/marie-von-heyl/