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DIGIVILLE
Adam Chodzko
17 July 08
Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton
Adam Chodzko's art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, between the community and private spaces that generate these systems, and between the documents and fictions that describe and guide them. Working directly with the people and places that surround him, Chodzko focuses on culture's edges, endings, displacements and disappearances in an active looking in the 'wrong' place. Through this he catalyses a collective wondering: how can we engage with the existence of others? And, what might reality become if we turn our attention to this?
Using a wide variety of media - from video to performance to fly-posters to drawing - Chodzko's art operates in the tight spaces he evolves between documentary and fantasy. Often generating intimate collections and ephemeral communities through his works, including creating: assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children 'murdered' in a Pasolini film; a god look-alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; a London gallery's archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital; and recently, the multi-faceted 'Design for a Carnival,' the evolution of a ritual event for the future. The 'Carnival' ranges from 'Settlement,' the legal purchase of a square foot of land as a gift to a stranger, to 'Nightshift,' a late night parade of nocturnal animals to the Frieze Art Fair, London 2004 to 'M-path,' the collection and distribution of 'appropriate' footwear for gallery visitors.
Born in 1965. Lives and works in Whitstable, Kent, UK.
Since 1991 Chodzko has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions: Venice Biennale; Royal Academy, London; Deste Foundation, Athens; PS1, NY; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Kunstmuseum Luzern etc. Recent projects include commissions by The Contemporary Art Society, Frieze Art Fair and Hayward Gallery. Forthcoming works include new commissions for solo exhibitions at Museum d'arte Moderna, Bologna, and Tate St Ives. In 2002 he received awards from the Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, and in 2007 was awarded a Research Fellowship in the Film Department at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His work is in the collections of the Tate, The British Council, The Arts Council, and international museums and private collections.
  
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