Thursday 26 September 18:00 - 21:00

St. Augustine's Tower Hackney
Adjacent to 354 Mare Street, London, E8 1HT
Adjacent to 354 Mare Street
London
E8 1HT

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Reading Stones: A­­nne Krinsky / Carol Wyss / Susan Eyre

Performing & Visual Arts

Reading Stones: A­­nne Krinsky / Carol Wyss / Susan Eyre
Three artists explore materiality and the passage of Time in Hackney's oldest building.

Anne Krinsky, Carol Wyss and Susan Eyre present an exhibition of site-specific works in response to the history and architecture of the ancient stone Tower of Saint Augustine, Hackney’s oldest building. Built in the 13thcentury, the tower houses a magnificent 16th century clock whose mechanisms still strike the hours, occupying three floors connected by steep spiral stone stairs.

Through their respective interests in the land, the body and the cosmos, Krinsky, Wyss and Eyre explore relationships between time and materiality. Their exhibited works provide singular “readings” of phenomena such as the erosion of gravestones, (re)configurations of human bones and the cosmological orbits of rocky bodies by which we measure time.

The nature of time itself was a concept that St Augustine of Hippo grappled with in his philosophical texts sixteen centuries ago and is still perplexing us today; namely, how to equate the subjective experience of time with an objective understanding.


More info: St. Augustines Tower

Image above: Carol Wyss, Ostory 1 (excerpt)


Events and Opening Hours


Private View: Thursday 26 September 6 - 9 pm
Week 1 Exhibition Hours
: Fri 27 Sept, Sat 28 Sept, Sun 29 Sept: 12 - 6 pm
Artists' Talk and Tour: Sun 29 Sept 5 -6 pm

Whitechapel First Thursday 3 October 6 - 9 pm

Week 2 Exhibition Hours: Fri 4 Oct, Sat 5 Oct, Sun 6 Oct: 12 - 6 pm 

Finissage Event Sunday 6 October 12 - 6 pm




About the Artists

Anne Krinsky works across analogue and digital media - painting, printmaking, photography and video. Fascinated by the ways in which built and natural structures change over time, she is working on a project on wetlands and climate change. Anne has been awarded two Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and an Artists International Development Fund Grant.
www.annekrinsky.com

Carol Wyss examines the relationship of human structures to their surroundings, using the human skeleton as a framework. She reconfigures her etched, cast and printed imagery of bones to create dramatic three-dimensional installations. Born in Switzerland, Carol lives and works in London and in Liechtenstein and exhibits across Europe.
www.carolwyss.net

Susan Eyre investigates unseen forces and the activity of matter in the universe, working with print, installation and video. Her interests include intangible phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of materiality, such as the aura of place and the dream of paradise. Susan has participated in research collaborations and exhibitions with scientists across the UK.
www.susaneyre.co.uk



About the Work 

“I am interested in the ephemeral nature of the physical world – in the transformation of terrains and in the erosion of stone, wood and metal over time. In developing imagery for the Ephemera scrolls, I wanted to create visual relationships across time and space. Iphotographed the Tower’s clock mechanism and gravestones from the surrounding garden and other London churchyards. During a recent residency at Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, I photographed the River Naab, as its water levels dropped during the hottest June on record. I feel impelled to document changes to wetlands and waterways in this time of accelerating climate change.”
Anne Krinsky

“My aim is to re-create the original ‘UR’ bone which has neither gender nor race, the first ever bone which existed, the one which fell from heaven or space. It is an attempt at merging all the bones of the human skeleton into one entity, which then becomes the common denominator, the starting point from which all bones and consequently all humans came. I am referring to the bible story of Eve’s creation from Adam’s rib, the Greek myth of Pyrrha with the creation of humans from the stones / bones of the earth and Da Vinci’s perfectly proportional Vitruvian man, as well as to science’s search for the ultimate building blocks of our universe.”
Carol Wyss

“My work builds on an interest in the mystery of time viewed across human, cosmological and quantum scales. The video piece installed alongside the tower’s ancient clock makes reference to the scientific theory of time crystals; a model which proposes a structure that repeats in time, as well as in space. Patterns employed within the film mirror the crystal structure of the mineral beryl, commonly used to fashion the original reading stones. Variations in perspective are manipulated through the speeding up, slowing down and overlapping of events to deconstruct a linear flow of time and interrogate the methods by which humans measure and experience this phenomenon.”
Susan Eyre

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