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Grace Ndiritu |
Gail Pickering |
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Grace Ndiritu
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ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY (THE MASK) | ||
Silent film | ||
4min20 | ||
2006/2007 | ||
This black and white video is a homage to seventies studio performances Nauman, Acconci, Jonas etc and reexamines the relationship between the artist and the viewer by using the camera as a mirror. | ||
Grace Ndiritu was born in 1976 in Birmingham and lives and works in London. She studied at Winchester School of Art, London; De Ateliers, Amsterdam; and had a UK studio residency at Delfina Studios, London (2004-2006). |
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Her 'Hand-crafted videos' and 'Video Paintings' have been widely exhibited, recent solo shows at the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005) Recent group shows include those at the Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2008), Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2008) and Metropolitan Museum of Art and Grey Art Gallery, New York (2008). |
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