Stills
Ângela Ferreira: Political Cameras
2 August – 27 October 2013
Ângela Ferreira, Political Cameras, 2011
For her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, Ângela Ferreira presents her renowned project Political Cameras (For Mozambique series) from 2011 alongside a new commission which will reference the legacy of David Livingstone's life and work, and the relationship between Africa and Europe from colonial days to the present. Since the early 1990’s Ferreira's practice has sought to articulate political meaning and commentary, repeatedly questioning the nature of the relationship between Africa and the Western world, and recalling politics through cultural icons like Dylan, Hendrix, Jean Rouch, Jean Prouvé or Ingrid Jonker.
Although Ferreira studied sculpture, which is at the heart of her practice, photography and film have become an inseparable part of her sculptural proposition. The appearance of photography as an integral part of the artist's work dates back to an early seminal work entitled Sites and Services, 1991. Up to that point, photography functioned as a way of presenting the reference-image which Ferreira used as a starting point for each work, fulfilling a quasi-documentary role. By including this material in her installations Ferreira explores ways of expanding the meaning of the sculptural renditions – from the real to the conceptual and back again.
Experiencing reference images together with the rendered sculptural form enables the viewer to travel forwards and backwards between the two realms, devising his or her own personal content from this action. In this way, the meaning of each project or installation can be found in the space between the reading of the photographic documentation image and the reading of the sculptural image: the two become an integral part of one artwork.
Mon–Sun, 11am–6pm
Free admission
Stills, Scotland's Centre for Photography
23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP
0131 622 6200
Stills
Ute Aurand, FILME
2 – 31 August 2013
Ute Aurand, Franz, 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Initiated by The Modern Edinburgh Film School for presentation at Stills, FILME is a special programme of poetic and enigmatic moving-image works by experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand. The films, dating from 1980 to the present, address themes of intimacy, the ephemeral, the diary film, and the portrait.
Aurand studied at The Film and Television Academy, Berlin, co-founded the group FilmSamstag and teaches and curates film festivals throughout Europe and the United States. With Maria Lang, she published the influential book Frauen machen Geschichte – 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der DFFB (Women Make History - 25 Years of the Women Students at the DFFB) (1991).
With support from LUX. Supported by New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund.
Mon–Sun, 11am–6pm
Free admission
Stills, Scotland's Centre for Photography
23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP
0131 622 6200
Events
2 August 2013
Artist talk: Ângela Ferreira
11am–12pm
Free admission
2 August 2013
Film Screening and Artist Talk: Ute Aurand
3pm
Free admission