Liane Lang | House Guests
6 - 22 October 2011
Special Frieze Sunday artist's talk: 5pm Sunday 16th October
Cyrated by Debra Wilson & Chiara Williams
WW Gallery is pleased to present House Guests, a new installation by Liane Lang, 6th – 22nd October 2011.
This new work takes its cue from the preserved or recreated living or working spaces of famous figures, designed to allow the viewer to enter temporarily into the past - a museum to the individual life. The projected film is an animation made in Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, the site of many traumatic events for his family but also where he wrote many of his best-loved books. The haunting atmosphere of the film gently spills over into the exhibition space, where strange objects, piles of books, pieces of furniture and photographs extend the narrative.
The film animation was made at Naulakha, the house of Rudyard Kipling in Vermont, an isolated building in the Connecticut River Valley. Kipling built this house to his own designs and lived here with his wife and daughters. The space we see is haunted, occupied by inhabitants that appear and vanish, furniture that moves of its own accord and disembodied voices that play in the overgrown swimming pool. In the exhibition space, found objects are arranged like haunted souls along the walls, hinting at the dark side of Kipling’s times and thoughts, the confusion and conflict of colonialism, travel and friendship as well as racism and arrogance, a boy’s adventure tale and the horrors of war.
Special Frieze Sunday artist's talk: 5pm Sunday 16th October
Cyrated by Debra Wilson & Chiara Williams
WW Gallery is pleased to present House Guests, a new installation by Liane Lang, 6th – 22nd October 2011.
This new work takes its cue from the preserved or recreated living or working spaces of famous figures, designed to allow the viewer to enter temporarily into the past - a museum to the individual life. The projected film is an animation made in Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, the site of many traumatic events for his family but also where he wrote many of his best-loved books. The haunting atmosphere of the film gently spills over into the exhibition space, where strange objects, piles of books, pieces of furniture and photographs extend the narrative.
The film animation was made at Naulakha, the house of Rudyard Kipling in Vermont, an isolated building in the Connecticut River Valley. Kipling built this house to his own designs and lived here with his wife and daughters. The space we see is haunted, occupied by inhabitants that appear and vanish, furniture that moves of its own accord and disembodied voices that play in the overgrown swimming pool. In the exhibition space, found objects are arranged like haunted souls along the walls, hinting at the dark side of Kipling’s times and thoughts, the confusion and conflict of colonialism, travel and friendship as well as racism and arrogance, a boy’s adventure tale and the horrors of war.
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About the artist
Liane Lang grew up in Germany and the US. She studied at NCAD in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College followed by a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy, where she graduated in 2006. Her work is concerned with notions of animacy, which she investigates through sculpture, photography and video works. Many of Lang's works examine museum objects and the biographies they attempt to narrate, modes of display and the verisimilitude of art objects, particularly figurative sculptures and political monuments. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad and her work is held in a number of notable collections. More info: www.lianelang.com Work in Collections Deutsche Bank Collection Royal Academy Collection White Cube Gallery Ernst & Young Collection Arts Council Of England Collection Saatchi Collection DEM Collection Collection Kunstverein Bregenz numerous private collections Awards and Residencies 2011 Royal Academy Print Room 2011 Westmoorland Heart Hospital 2010 Supernova Gallery, Riga 2009 Memento Sculpture Park, Budapest 2006 Selina Cheneviere Fellowship 2006 Hugh Merrell Dissertation Award 2005 Henry Moore Foundation Production Award 2005 SPS Award 2002 London Arts Board Production Award 1999 Tooth Travel Award Solo Shows 2011 The Long Way Home, Permanent Public Commission for Croydon Council 2010 Monumental Misconceptions, KvH Projects, London, 2010 Shadows and Stowaways with Squid/Tabernacle, Dalston, London 2010 Mesmeric Monument at Supernova Gallery, Riga Talks accompanying the exhibition at KIM Institute supported by the British Council, catalogue 2009 Public Commission, Portobello Road, RBKC 2008 Artist at Apsley, Flora Fairbairn Projects 2007 Fondling Germanicus, Kunstverein Heidelberg 2006 Verisimilitude, T1+2 Artspace, London 2001 Offspace, Vienna, new video work, Austria 2001 Southfirst Art, new video work, New York |
Selected Group Shows
Latitude Festival 2011, The Big Screen, July, 2011 Art First, London, new photography, 2-person show, October 2011 Once Upon A Time in The West, Cultural Olympiad, July 2012 2011 Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery at the 54 th Venice Biennale 2011 The Sexual Object, Salon-Vert, Regents Park 2011 London Art Fair, WW Gallery 2011 68m Gallery, Copenhagen 2010 Heft, Winchester Discovery Centre, curated by Tony Hayward 2010 Flaming July, Leighton House Museum 2010 Strangeness and Charm, Fieldgate Gallery at The Last Tuesday Society 2009 Is there anybody there? WilsonWilliams Gallery, London 2009 The Apartment, curated by Paul Buck 2009 Merriscourt, curated by Flora Fairbairn 2008 Super Cilia, Royal Liver Building, Liverpool 2008 Lucifers Greatest War, FRED Gallery, Leibzig 2008 Gothic, Fieldgate Gallery, London 2007 Zoo Art Fair 05/06/07, Royal Academy of Art, T1+2 Art Space 2007 Anticipation, One One One Gallery, Flora Fairbairn Projects 2007 ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space, London 2005 Go-Between, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria 2005 Sesiones Animadas, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid 2004 Mementoes and Other Curiosities, London 2003 Kunstwerke, Berlin, Animations 2002 Liverpool Biennial, PoT 2001 Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York 2001 New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London 
Thanks to Paper Round ‘London’s leading recycling specialist’ for their help with this project
Part of Photomonth 2011
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