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Lucy Skaer
Lucy Skaer, Cell #1 (with rules and exceptions), 2005 (c) Courtesy of the artist, Collection of UBS, UK
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
29 May 2008, 6pm
This month, you are invited to The Fruitmarket Gallery to see the first major solo exhibition of work by Lucy Skaer.
Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films, often combining them in installations of all three. Her work always begins with an existing image or representation, which she works and reworks, transforming them while retaining a sense of their original meaning and physical form.
Using optical distortion, scale, and immense detail, her drawings are constructed not with the desire to represent an original object but rather with the intention of eliciting a certain experience of reality absent in the primary source: the moment of encounter between image and observer. Skaer’s work underscores that usually overlooked instant in which a viewer recognises an image as an image.
This exhibition is the most substantial presentation of Skaer’s work to date, and offers a chance to assess the development of her practice. Drawings dating from 2001 to 2008 are shown alongside film, installation and sculpture.
Lucy Skaer was one of the six artists chosen to represent Scotland at the 2007 Venice Biennale. She was also shortlisted for Beck’s Futures in 2003. Joining us to explore the exhibition will be Stacy Boldrick, Adult Education Coordinator at the Fruitmarket Gallery.