Emily Roysdon: “scenic, say”
20 May-2 September 2017
“scenic, say” is the first solo show in Portugal by Stockholm-based American artist Emily Roysdon.
Queer history and social space have always interested Roysdon, generating an interdisciplinary working method with projects taking the form of performances, photographic installations, print making, texts, videos, curating and collaborations. For “scenic, say” Roysdon uses photography to deepen a sense of loss in relationship to the aliveness of time. Using the theatrical tropes of perspective and proscenium, Roysdon exhibits variations of the dynamics between movement, image, stage, alive and lost. Through photography, printmaking and installation the exhibition combines gridded mural sized images with collaged silver gelatin works. These analog prints, also screen printed, are standing in the room, off the wall, in order to present the performative contrast between the image strategies and share the commitment of the artist to reanimate in scale the social space.
The sense of loss is further depicted via a need of a horizon which rests quietly in the photographs. The images appear unfinished, uneven, linking the idea of the before and the after. Roysdon’s text Uncounted echoes in “scenic, say” as fragments of that work are screen printed in the collaged works. In “scenic, say”, Roysdon shows her research into what is lost in time and how this is staged and memorialized. Thinking through death and theatre she offers the public a poetic glance of her personal, abstract and political imaginary.
(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Rua José Sobral Cid 9E
1900-289 Lisbon, Portugal
+351 912045650
Hours:
Thursday-Saturday, 3-7PM
Image:(top)
Untitled (proscenium 4)
by Emily Roysden
silver gelatin photogram, screen print collage
2017
Photo: Bruno Lopes
Image:(centre)
“scenic, say” installation view:
Untitled (proscenium 4), 2017
Vanishing Point (February 15, 2012, New York Live Arts, choreographer Vanessa Anspaugh, with Aretha Aoki, Niall Noel Jones, Molly Leiber, Lydia Okrent, Mary Read), 2017
Untitled (proscenium 3), 2017
all works by Emily Roysden
Photo: Bruno Lopes