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_______________________________________________________________ Deepa Chudasama, 'Mala', 2013 aluminium hoop, plastic hoop, various cable ties, plain and hand dyed, coloured wall _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________ Deepa Chudasama, 'Kala', 2013, 3 Music stands, hula hoops, cable ties _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________ Deepa Chudasama,'Surya',2013, Installation View _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________ Deepa Chudasama, 'Surya ' , 2013 sculptural assemblage, wheeltrims, paint,cable ties _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________ Ruth Barker, 'Mouth Open In An Open O', 2013' , 2013 live performance and installation _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________ Ruth Barker, 'Mouth Open In An Open O', 2013' , 2013 live performance and installation _______________________________________________________________
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______________________________ Deepa Chudaama 'Surya', Gallery 1Ruth Barker ' Mouth Open In An Open O', Gallery 2______________________________ The Agency is pleased to present two con-current solo exhibitions by Deepa Chudasama in Gallery 1 and Ruth Barker in Gallery 2. With SURYA, Deepa Chudasama is returning to the gallery with new works on an expanded scale. Continuing to work with mundane man made materials Chudasama's ready-made wall sculptures focus on the value of 'throwaway' consumer goods in the growing super economies such as India, Brazil and China. Her works are architectural in nature. She is frequently referring to the modernist canon as exemplified in Le Corbusier's cityscape of Chandigarh, nonetheless her work remains more ephemeral and temporal. Working with structural patterns manufactured by hand but with repeatable units, Chudasama's process mimics industrialised mass production, as is the case in her sculpture SURYA made from car wheel trims and cable ties. Paraphrasing the low-cost labour methods, for which many Asian factories are sought after, the artist 'weaves' structures with plastic ties normally utilised for sealing postal sacks or industrial ties for engineering. The resulting filigree-type works are as delicate in appearance as they are hardwearing. Chudasama balances methods taken from the post-colonial low cost labour methods and the ideal of an artist-led unique authentic production and merges them in her pattern based sculptural works. Deepa Chudasama, Installation View, 2013 Ruth Barker is an artist whose main practice consists of vocal and text-based works. For her first presentation at the Agency she will present the performance piece Mouth Open In An Open O. The piece is a continuation of her quest to re-voice the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh through performative practice. She composed and memorised a richly poetic text, part epic, part personal mythology, which she recounts as a focused, charged encounter with ritual storytelling. For all her performances Barker wears specifically tailored garments, designed by Carmel O'Brien to produce a bespoke garment that emphasises the physical and sculptural quality of the artist's vocal work. To speak Barker stands bare foot on a fabric floor piece (Something To Hold Me, (2013)), a digital print of her shadow-self stretched out below her. Using embodied voice techniques and traditional practices of remembering, she will re-imagine the Gilgamesh myth in seven chapters, taking the audience around the circuit of a calendar year. The recitation becomes a form of ritualised speech, which is resonant, current, and affecting. Ruth Barker states "that the act of retelling a myth is a way to describe and know the fundamentals of the human condition". In doing so she relates ideas of mythic structures, repetition and metamorphosis to the vivid quality of the live, present female artist. The re-making of the mythic space of performance becomes a gesture towards the ritual and/or artistic understanding of self, gender, and mortality. __________________________________________________ Deepa Chudsama lives and works in London. She has shown in Art Gwangju , South Korea, 2012, Message to India, a British Council touring exhibition, Deptford X, two prior solo shows at the Agency an. Her work is in international private collections and public collections, a./o Vital Arts, Royal London. Ruth Barker is a Glasgow-based artist. Recent projects include performance commissions for Glasgow International festival of Visual Art; Segedunum Museum, Wallsend; ReMap festival, Athens; and Machon Hamayim Gallery, Tel Aviv. In 2008 Barker designed the first permanent British war memorial to commemorate non-combatants killed in conflict. The Choir Loft is a grade II listed monument, and is sited beside the Cenotaph in Blackpool, UK.
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