ARC Projects – Protected
Waverley Station, National Gallery of Scotland, Princes Street, North Bridge, Waverley Bridge, Royal Scottish Academy Building, Embassy Gallery, South Bridge, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 0131 477 2006Protected A residency, exhibition and live performances by ARC Projects resident artist Mare Tralla (Estonia/UK)
Our every movement and action today seems to be subject to surveillance. What do we need in order for public and private life to thrive? Spaces that are absolutely free from the prying eyes of officialdom and others? Setting out to explore these and other notions of privacy, security and surveillance, Mare Tralla skilfully employs various media and styles, ranging from painting and video, live performance and photography to sculpture.
Protected is Tralla’s first artist’s residency in Scotland. It is accompanied by an exhibition as part of Mutatis Mutandis and the Annuale at Edinburgh’s Embassy Gallery and a series of live easel painting performances, ‘tracking the movements’ of CCTV cameras throughout Edinburgh. The artist evokes this 16th century tradition, which set easel artists free from the constraints of painting on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist.
After the launch of ARC Projects’ international artistinresidence programme as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2007, featuring Sarajevoborn artist Lala Rascic, Mare Tralla is the second resident artist commissioned to undertake a new project in Edinburgh during the festival.
Co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Chris Byrne of ARC Projects especially for Edinburgh Art Festival 2008. In partnership with Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, the Annuale, Edinburgh and Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh.