Molly Dunson, Ethan Larbi, Ashley Lazaro and Emanuel Wiley speak about Folayemi Wilson’s Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times at Hyde Park Art Center, March 31 – July 14, 2019
2019 | acrylic paint and adhesive vinyl | 35 x 60 inches
Each drawing is comprised of several plotter-cut and hand-painted adhesive vinyl line segments applied directly to the wall.
While the segments cumulatively form a visually continuous line that followed the movement of the hand, each is numbered to represent its own discrete interval of time. Adjacent to each drawing is a wall-mounted document with a transcription of the speech that corresponded to the gesture. The speech is broken into numbered time intervals matching the words to their particular line segment in the drawing. In this image, four participants in Hyde Park Art Center’s teen program, describe the exhibition by Folayemi Wilson in the main gallery. Each teen selects a color to represent their gestural line.
Molly Dunson, Ethan Larbi, Ashley Lazaro and Emanuel Wiley speak about Folayemi Wilson’s Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times at Hyde Park Art Center, March 31 – July 14, 2019
2019 | acrylic paint and adhesive vinyl | 35 x 60 inches
Next to each drawing there is a wall-mounted document with a transcription of the speech that corresponds to the gesture.
The speech is broken into time intervals that are numbered to match the words to their particular line segment in the drawing. Like a musical score, each number initiates a fixed time interval in which movement and speech occur. The text, with its numbers, and the wall drawing, with its numbers, can be cross-referenced to create a fuller picture of the participant’s perceptions.
Tracy Taylor speaks about Sabina Ott’s who cares for the sky? at Hyde Park Art Center, February 21 – May 1, 2016
2019 | acrylic paint and adhesive vinyl | 15 x 17 inches
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas speaks about La Paz at Hyde Park Art Center, April 3 – July 17, 2016
2019 | acrylic paint and adhesive vinyl | 57 x 58 inches (wall) 23 x 47 inches (floor)
Untitled (Space Between Gestures, Kate)
2019 | adhesive vinyl on paper | 30 x 22.5 inches
Untitled (Space Between Gestures, Molly, Ethan, Ashley, Emanuel),
2019 | adhesive vinyl on paper | 22.5 x 30 inches
Untitled (Space Between Gestures, Tracy)
2019 | adhesive vinyl on paper | 22.5 x 30 inches
Untitled (Space Between Gestures, Rodrigo)
2019 | adhesive vinyl on paper | 50 x 38 inches
Found Gestures is a collaborative project by Chicago-based artist Susan Giles and Manchester-based artist Sally Morfill.
Consisting of two artist residencies and exhibitions in two locations, Chicago and London, the project reflects the artists’ shared interest in the visual language of co-speech hand gestures. Each iteration begins with an engagement with an art space and its surrounding community in which participants are asked to describe past and present exhibitions. Participants’ speech and gestures are recorded using audio and motion-capture technology, then made into physical, material traces of the conversations that took place. These gestes trouvés (found gestures) are presented in exhibitions in the spaces in which they were recorded. The power to shift perception is associated with the art historical objet trouvé, objects designed with a primary non-art function placed in an art environment. Here, a series of gestes trouvés (found gestures), as evidence of shifting perceptions, are appropriated and removed from their usual context, to provide the content for this work.
This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
