Canadian artist Corin Sworn bowls them over at Timespan
CANADIAN visual artist Corin Sworn will showcase a new HD video work amid a collection of sculptures, drawings and photographs at Timespan in Helmsdale on October 7.
Entitled Unsettling Provenance, this exhibition is the result of a three-month residency, commissioned by Timespan, and it will be launched at an event there between 7pm and 9pm.
Sworn is an artist working with drawing, installation and video. Her work draws upon slippages and misalignments that occur in depictions of the past as the imaginations and ideals from one point in history are translated into another. She works in Vancouver and Glasgow.
Sworn has been artist in residence at Timespan at different periods throughout 2011.
This exhibition will present a collection of works emerging from her research in Sutherland. This has focused on historical objects, both those left in the natural environment and those found and displayed in museums.
Through walks and discussions with people from the local community she examined the preserved remains of an extinct forest, ancient and ruined architectures as well as other miscellaneous found artefacts.
Much of this research led back to interests within her own practice that focus on layers of meaning and the folding of various spaces and times into one another.
At Timespan, Sworn will be exhibiting a new video, a collection of sculptures, drawings and a series of photographs.
Small Finds is a collection of photographs referencing a common archaeological find in the area – the bowl. Individuals from the community donated bowls for the photographs following a breakfast hosted by Sworn at the museum.
Tracing Creases is a collection of sculptural screens alongside a new video work. The works address the layering of cultural material across the landscape over time.
The video uses a motif of water to examine circulation and its relation to power and displacement. It focuses on the remnants of a 4000-year-old forest found in peat bogs and submerged in Loch Badinloch near Kinbrace in Sutherland.
This project was made possible through the support of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and European Community Highland LEADER 2007-2013 Programme.