INNOCENCE AND DESPAIR with artists Holly Davey, Marko Mäetamm, Gaia Persico

29.09.2007

From 29 September – to 3 November, g39,  39 Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1FH

The inspiration for this show has come from the Claire Denis film Trouble Every Day, and soundtrack of the same name by Tindersticks; the album Sharpen Your Teeth by Ugly Casanova; the one-off side project of Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock; and Low’s boxset, A Lifetime of Temporary Relief.




[...The wavering line between fact and fiction, humour and horror in Marko Mäetamm’s work unsettles us. His recent body of work is based in the very real circumstance of his struggle to survive as an artist and family member. The narratives in his short films are distorted to the extreme and almost hellish, if side-split with a murky sense of fun. Violence pervades much of the work; however, such is the dark, childlike humour with which it is tackled that we feel pity for him in his desperate situation.



























These intimate, catastrophic and fearful thoughts laid bare also instil feelings of horrendous voyeurism. We become party to private horrors, hidden bloody stories borne of frustration, fantastical imagining of ‘a way out’, a drastic solution, and the horror lures us in. Mäetamm’s paintings imply similar stories of other places, situations, families, homes, where just such imagined violence has also taken place...]


Curated by Rob Lowe

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