Charlotte moth function follows vision vision follows reality
Charlotte Moth (born 1978, Carshalton) is a British artist who uses principally the mediums of photography, video and sculpture, often using these works to create sculptural or architectural installations. She currently lives and works in Paris.
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Charlotte moth study for a 16mm film
Work
In a 2011 interview for ArtForum, Moth states that she is "very interested in a sculptural relationship to experience. An image can later function as an aid to memory, it becomes a hybrid, and something perhaps better described as an “image-memory". For Moth, photography is a way to analyse her surroundings and understand her experiences. Her photographic practice becomes a way to research subjects and future work.
In 1999, Moth started her ongoing project 'Travelogue', which is a collection of personal photographs which, grouped together, allow a glimpse into the artist's personal universe. This work was inspired by the work of Andre Cadere, who the artist discovered in 1999. Her fascination with Cadere was engendered by her perception of his work as "an endless conceptual activity that made a separation and rupture from ideas of evolution within artistic practices and by how an underlying structure and repetitive action could become a working methodology." The work was enriched in anticipation of her 2011 exhibition at the Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart in France, for which she discovered the archives of Raoul Hausmann, which led her to Ibiza to retrace the footsteps of the Dadaists on the Spanish island during 1933-1936.
In 2015, the artist was invited by the Tate Britain to create a work. Inspired by a photograph by Barbara Hepworth, One Form (Single Form), 1937, she created an archival display to interrogate the way images are choreographed. Using ten vitrines, Moth presented images from the Tate's archives from the years of 1930 to 1960 in order to create 'thought constellations'. Each vitrine treats a different element necessary to stage images of artworks: Image, Light, Book, Nature, Studio, Film, Imagination, Magic and Play.
Exhibitions
Moth has participated in many exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Tate Britain, the Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, the FRAC Plateau in Paris, and the Kunsthalle Wien.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 : Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
2016 : Parc Saint-Léger, Pouges-les-eaux, FR
2016 : Marcelle Alix, Paris
2015 : Archive Room - Tate Britain, London, UK, Choreography of the image
Esker Foundation, Calgary, CA, cur. Shauna Thompson, Peta Rake
2015 : Marcelle Alix, Paris, Rushes (with Ian Kiaer)
2015 : Fig 2, ICA studio, London, UK
2014 : Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE, The Story of a different Thought
2014 : De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL, The Story of a different Thought
2014 : Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, DE, The Story of a different Thought
2012 : Frieze - Frame section, New York, USA
2012 : Centre d'art contemporain de Genève, CH, Ce qui est fragile est toujours nouveau, cur. Emilie Bujès
2012 : Marcelle Alix, Paris, Villa Surprise
2011 : Fondation Serralves, Porto, PT
2011 : Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, DE, Displacements
2011 : Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, FR, Noting Thoughts
2011 : Pied-à-Terre, San Francisco, USA
2011 : Lavomatique, Saint-Ouen, FR
2010 : Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE, The Absent Forms, cur. Hannes Loichinger
2010 : Marcelle Alix, Paris, remade
2010 : Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK, Comma 18, cur. Vanessa Desclaux
2010 : FIAC, Paris, Secteur Lafayette, 37th edition
2010 : Studio Sanda Recio, Geneva, CH, 50 jours pour la photographie, part of the festival la revanche de l'archive photographique, Centre de la photographie (Geneva)
2009 : Project Space for Kunstverein of Rheinlande and Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
2009 : FormContent, London, UK, It's not for reading. It's for making, Intervention for Chapter 2, a reflection on collecting and archiving
2008 : Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE, Potential Narratives, process room
2008 : Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart, DE, two of a kind, Dorten Haus
2007 : Hedah, Maastricht, DE, Species of Spaces
2006 : Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL, Installation for Dolores, Dolores project space
Group Exhibitions
2016 : Hopstreet Gallery,Bruxelles, BE, Zodiaco (cur. Davide Bertocchi)
2015: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienne, AT, Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality
2015: Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR, Rideaux / blinds (cur. Marie de Brugerolles)
2015: Tlön invite Video Palace, Nevers, FR, Babel
2015: Centre d'Art Contemporain La Traverse, Alfortville, FR, Carte Blanche à Eva Nielsen & Joël Riff
2015: Galerie du jour, Paris, ROC (cur. Hugues Reip)
2015: CIAC Foundation, Mexico City, MX
2014 : Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US, Landscape: The virtual, the actual, the possible
2014 : Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, The Promise
2014 : CAR drde, Bologna, IT, Zodiaco (cur. Davide Bertocchi)
2014 : FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris, Beginning Again (cur. Philippe Decrauzat and Mathieu Copeland)
2014 : Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN, Landscape: The virtual, the actual, the possible
2014 : Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France, Paris, à l'envers, à l'endroit...à l'envers, à l'endroit... (cur. Nicolas Giraud)
2014 : Centre d'Art Contemporain La Halle des Bouchers, Vienne, FR, Les sons du silence/The sounds of silence
2014 : Tatra Museum, Koprivnici, CZ, Modest Muses (Cur. Kasia Redzisz)
2014 : Beirut (in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation), Cairo, EG, A Guest Without a Host is a Ghost
2013 : Atelier des Arques, Les Arques, Lot, FR, L'image dans le tapis (cur. Olivier Michelon)
2013 : Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT, On the Move. European Kunsthalle at the KUB Arena
2013 : Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, DE
2013 : Gesellschaft Für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE, The geometry of things
2012 : A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE-Institut du Carton, Brussels, BE, cur. Aglaia Konrad
2012 : Le confort moderne, Poitiers, FR, Le confort moderne, cur. Mathieu Copeland
2012 : Dallas Biennial, USA, cur. Florence Ostende
2012 : Marcelle Alix, Paris, Le vicomte pourfendu
2012 : Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, FR, this & there, cur. Claude Closky
2012 : Cole gallery, London, UK, Dagmar Heppner Hannah James Charlotte Moth
2012 : Netwerk/ centre for contemporary art, Aalst, BE, Façades, cur.Paul Lagring
2011 : Marz Galeria, Lisbon, PT, Abstraction & Storytelling, cur. Joana Neves
2011 : The Mews, London, UK, cur. Filipa Oliveira & Aldo Rinaldi
2011 : Ca'asi, Venice, IT, Dans le palais de crystal, cur. Pascal Beausse & Pascale Cassagnau
2011 : Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, Hypotheses and Drifting, with or without photographies 1850 - 2010
2011 : Messen de Clercq, Bruxelles, BE, cur. Latitudes - Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Luna
2011 : Transpalette, Bourges, FR, déjouer l'espace, cur. Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize/ Damien Sausset
2010 : Academiegalerie, Utrecht, NL, Yucatan is Elsewhere (with Achim Lengerer, Karolin Meunier, Robert Smithson) cur. Falke Pisano
2010 : Kunsthalle Basel, DE, Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) (with Maria Thereza Alves, Ross Birrel & David Harding, Latifa Echakhch, Dunja Herzog, Cecile Hummel, Franco Vaccari, Danh Vo, Nick Mauss, Lorraine O'Grady, Paul Hendrikse) cur. Adam Szymczyk & Salvatore Lacagnina
2010 : Synagogue de Delme, FR, Une exposition (du) sensible, cur. Mathieu Copeland
2010 : Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, FR, Les Interlocuteurs, cur. Mathilde Villeneuve
2010 : Kunsthalle Basel, DE, After Architects (with John Smith, James Welling, Latifa Echkhakch, David Jablonowski, Haegue Yang)
2010 : Arcade Fine Art, London, UK, Associations (with John Smith, Jeremiah Day)
2009 : Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, We would like (once more) to thank the curators who have wished to remain anonymous
2009 : La Vitrine ENSAPC, Paris, Répertoire pour une forme, cur. Mathilde Villeneuve
2008 : Unosunove, Rome, IT, Threealities
2008 : Associazione Marco Magnani, Sardinia, IT, Lo Sfumato
2008 : Royal Academy, London, UK, Los Vinilos, Zoo Art Fair
2008 : One in the Other, London, UK, Travelogue
2008 : White Nave, Dover, UK, Walls in Three Places
2008 : Transpalette, Bourges, FR, exhibition of Le Pavillion
2008 : SMBA, Amsterdam, NL, Object, the Deniable Success of Operations
2008 : Galerie Lucile Corty, Paris, Carte Blanche à Charlotte Moth
2008 : Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Pavillion 7 The Unfair Fair, Rome
2007 : Jet, Berlin, DE, The Film as a page of Victor Hugo rewritten in the style of Nerval
2007 : Project, Dublin, IE, The First Antechamber
2007 : Kadist Foundation, Paris, The Backroom
2006 : Artis, Den Bosch, NL, Resonances
2006 : Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK, Beauty and the Beast
2005 : The Metropole Galleries, Kent, UK, For and From. An exhibition of drawings by 50 artists
2005 : Herbert Read Gallery, Kent, UK, Sculpture at Canterbury. A gathering of new forms here
2005 : Musee des Beaux Arts, Dunkerque, FR, Les Merveilles du Monde
2005 : MuseumMAN, Liverpool, UK, Sphere, New works
2004 : Whitstable Biennale, Kent, UK
2003 : London Biennale, London, Changing Channels
2003 : Pollionations, Berlin, Changing Channels
2003 : The Metropole Galleries, Kent, The Greatest Show on Earth
Artist Books
MOTH, Charlotte, Voyages en territoires partagés/A Journey Through Shared Spaces, 2013, Editions Cercles d'art
MOTH, Charlotte, Bleckede 2009, Rochechouart 2011, 2012, Steinberg Press
MOTH, Charlotte, Charlotte Moth, 2011, Serralves Publications