MARYNIAK and MCLEAN present:
TALENT SKIPS A GENERATION
Private View 26 July 2013, 6pm - late
Continues Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July, 12 - 5pm or by appointment.
TALENT SKIPS A GENERATION
“Artists have long turned their
attention to the unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the
open-endedness of experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as
means to rethink how we understand our place in the world.”1
In this exhibition M&M take a
retrospective look at their roles as home moviemakers and amateur
photographers. Through an exploration of their own archived material
they have compiled a selection of footage made up of out-takes,
mis-takes, rehearsals, and experiments. The works attempt to blur the
lines between intention and accident, reality and fiction, in what
the artists would term as a collection of their most successful
failures.
Although their intentions are to make
art, they often find that their work is perilously close to just
being shit comedy.
1
Lisa Le Feuvre, ‘Strive to Fail’ Failure,
2010 Whitechapel Gallery Venture Limited
