Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE
Open Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 5pm. Free Entry
In 2010, Ikon Eastside presented Hitchcock Hallway, an installation by Danish artist duo AVPD, whose work typically consists of complex spatial and perceptual experiments that analyse the ways in which people respond to their environments. The title makes reference to director Alfred Hitchcock who
employed spatial effects to create psychological intensity in many of his films. For this major new work, commissioned by Ikon, the entrance to the gallery was replaced by a door.
In addition, the artists produced a number of off-site projects around
Birmingham. At Ikon, Brindleyplace a window at the gallery entrance was
covered by multiple layers of glass in Conceal; paradoxically, with each
transparent sheet the window becomes more opaque. Meanwhile in locations around the city, Level, a series of simple graphic posters appeared, black with a white horizontal line, each one subtly different, exploring memory, recognition and expectation. A fourth project, Rotoobjects, was a discreet, unpublicised, sculptural action – white Perspex objects, each the shape and size of a drinks can, were abandoned at the top of public escalators around Birmingham – there they rotated, hypnotically, until removed.
AVPD are Aslak Vibæk and Peter Døssing, both graduates of The Royal
Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Often inspired by ways in which space is
re-imagined in literature, film and science, their works challenge socially
conditioned or innate perceptual habits, emphasising how our bodies ‘read’
spaces and react to them, be it physically, intuitively and intellectually. They
see the human subject as defined by space; shaping it and in turn being
shaped by it, and as such their experiments with constructions are suggestive of new possibilities for imaginative space. www.avpd.net
Limited Edition
Level xx˚
Framed, varying dimension, editions made to order.
Prices from £450.00
Artists duo AVPD have created an edition of eleven prints taken from their Level series, a project which saw ninety posters pinned up across Birmingham city centre. In each of the original prints the white line moved in increments through a 90⁰ rotation. Each poster was manoeuvred to preserve a straight horizontal line, resulting in the edges of the print rotating whilst the line seemingly remained unchanged. For this framed edition AVPD have chosen a selection of eleven variations from the original series. Each poster comes framed.
*This edition is not available to buy online. Please contact Ikon Shop on 0121 248 0711 for further details and for delivery / collection options.
Coming soon
Ikon also publishes the first comprehensive monograph of AVPD’s work.
AVPD Press Release (PDF 158kb)
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