You are warmly invited to attend the next DVA Lecture.
By blurring truth and fiction\, symbolism and reality\, and rationality and emotion in her work\, Wardill unlocks the hierarchical structures of knowledge and rearranges them.
While her practice conta ins an element of analysis\, she experiments with different visual or verba l structures\, deliberately resisting meaning that settles in form. This re sistance comes from an interest in styles of communication and the persiste nce of images to outlive their initial purpose.
Her films consciously emphasize the irreducible qualities of images as well as their emancipator y potential taking an interest in the way in which the symbolic is used wit hin the communication of nebulous ideas or political rhetoric. Her approach emphasizes the strangeness of images and undermines narrative cohesion. Th e film develop its own life and dynamic\, to be absorbed by the senses rath er than through logic.
Wardill's work makes a central contribution to contemporary art film and was exhibited\, among others\, at the Serpentine Gallery London (2012)\, the Showroom Gallery London (2010)\, the Gallery o f Modern Art Glasgow (2011)\, the Baadischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (2011)\, the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge/MA (2010) and the ICA\, Londo n (2008). In 2004 the artist showed the performance event The Feast Against Nature in Grizedale in the Lake District and at the New York PS1 Contempor ary Art Center.
In 2011 she took part in the Venice Biennale. Her wor k was awarded the Jarman Award in 2010 and the Leverhulme Award in 2011. Re cently her films were shown in the context of solo shows\, namely The Third Person in the ARTES) and When you fall into a trance in La Loge\, Brussels (2012).
Emily Wardill\, born in 1977\, lives and works in Lisbon\, P ortugal. She will talk about her own work and show films.
The Disting uished Visiting Artist Program is made possible by the generous support of the Rennie Collection.
All events are free and open to the public.
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