Brian Dawn Chalkley 03.09.99 - 26.09.99 Private View: 03 September 1999, 7.00-9.00 pm The paintings, video and sound work which make up Brian Dawn Chalkley’s exhibition at Platform are the work of two/one people. Brian & Brian’s alter ego/personae Dawn. Dawn has been making work since January of 1997 when they participated in a group show curated by Paul Noble at City Racing. Since then Dawn has become increasingly active in the art world, in Brian’s world. Brian makes paintings, Brian has always made paintings. It is a solitary practise and Dawn is not discreet enough anymore to let this be the case. Dawn intrudes into Brian’s paintings, makes incursions, inroads, parallel paths, creates a dialogue, inscribing the social into the environment of paintings concerned with a failed modernism, a heady mixture. A sense of displacement and of loss is evoked by these ‘biproducts’ which no hyphen nor ampersand can appease. Dawn makes videos, performs. Brian edits, constructs, watches Dawn’s World 1 and Dawn’s World 2 as a defacto participant in these short, finite narratives. Ted’s Bar, a sound piece is a verbatim account of a social encounter where Brian Dawn and others are spoken through one disembodied voice. Painting, video and sound work subtly search out their place in the context of art making and the negotiation of identity. When finding no one, singular (ideal) position the work creates its own polymorphous perverse space with a quiet and celebratory surety. Platform will be publishing a book work by Brian Dawn Chalkley later this year.
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