Invasion of the Trojan Horse

Gabriela Schutz

30.04.05 - 05.06.05

Private View: Friday 29 April, 6.00-8.00 pm

In Invasion of the Trojan Horse Gabriela Schutz will be showing two large scale water colours on paper; Invasion of the Trojan Horse(1.22 x 1.52 m) and Cul-de-sac(1.22 x 4.58 m). Both works depict what appears to be a suburban sprawl. The scale of this sprawl is vast. The titles of the works carry the conflicting sentiment of romance and horror. Are these places, locations of snug comfort, situations of quaint antiquity or are they dead ends and where fatalistic narratives play themselves out?

Certainly Schutz gives us a fantastical space to contemplate. It is replete with voyeuristic pleasures, monotony and a touch of humour. We view these places at a further remove like a security guard faced with a grid of control room monitors each fractionally miss-calibrated. In front of Cul-de-sacand Invasionwe are bathed in the erie, bathetic light of malfunctioning technology.

Are these watercolours cliche or sublime? Is it possible that they are both and by the scale of repetition and the heroic, machineic effort of their construction by hand that cliche becomes sublime, truism is invested with the uncanny and we the viewer are in love once more?

This is Gabriela Schutz's first show at Platform. She has recently exhibited at Petach-Tikva Museum (Petach-Tikva, Israel), Hangrove art Space (Bristol), Zoo Art Fair, (Jeffery Charles Gallery, London) 'Pilot:1' (Lime House Town Hall, London), 'Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004' (London) and 'Death of Romance', curators: Amanda Beech & Matthew Poole (17 Ganton Street, London).