LINDSAY SEERS, IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY 1.5

The installation of Lindsay Seer's exhibition at aspex is well under way and on schedule for the Preview on Saturday. It has to be this way 1.5  is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her stepsister, Christine Parkes.  The work takes full advantage of the gallery space and already looks like an exhibition not to be missed.

Lindsay Seers, It has to be this way 1.5
Preview: Saturday 23 October, 2 to 4 pm
Exhibition: 23 October 2010 to 2 January 2011
 

In 1999 a young woman was involved in a moped accident. She suffered damage
to both her short and long-term memory and was left unable to decipher her
experiences. A year later she went missing in Rome and has subsequently not been
found.
It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’
continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the
young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.
The artist, obsessed with the transformative powers of photography, follows
streams of associations; her stepsister’s boyfriend’s diary, her mother’s memories
alongside a shared archive of images and papers, determine the outline of her
ongoing journey and the form for the unfolding narrative of the work. The viewer
enters a structure in which everything is connected, a memory theatre painted
blue, a giant star, a doubled video, and a documentary and novella that weave
together a complex set of relationships which shift at every turn.
What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling,
but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual
investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common
desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex
historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are
witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of
these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of
observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.
Through Seers’ photographic explorations the past is constantly reconfigured, as
if it contains an infinite virtual potential for different outcomes, which are all
already embedded in one another.
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, will also be exhibiting the work of Lindsay
Seers. The installation It has to be this way2 will be exhibited from 9 October
until 11 December 2010.
Lindsay Seers is based in London. She was recently awarded the Derek Jarman
Award with a commission of four short films for Channel 4. Her recent
exhibitions include It has to be this way2, at the National Gallery of Denmark
(2010), Persistence of Vision, FACT (2010), Steps into the Arcane,
Kuntsmuseum, Thurgau, Switzerland (2010), Altermodern, Fourth Tate
Triennial, Tate Britain (2009), It has to be this way, Matt’s Gallery, London
(2009), and Event Horizon, (performance/screening), Royal Academy of Art,
London (2008).
EVENT INFORMATION
Gallery Talk
Thursday 11 November, 6pm
Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work.

aspex is open 11am – 4pm daily, admission is FREE.
t: 023 9277 8080, e: info@aspex.org.uk, www.aspex.org.uk