[Reader-list] [Announcements] www.tank.tv : Rachel Reupke : 01.12.07 - 01.01.08

[Alice O'Reilly]

Rachel Reupke
1st December - 1st January 2008
tank.tv sees out the year with a solo show from Rachel Reupke.

Showcasing a selection of chapters from her ongoing project of re-examining
romantic filmic conventions in the age of mass reproduction, the programme
will include previously unseen work.

Inspired by the opening moments of Herzog's Aguirre: Wrath of God,
Hitchcock's North By Northwest and the landscapes of Bruegel, Friedrich and
Turner, in Reupke's work scenery and vistas are manipulated to the point of
hyperreality. "Romanticism is tempered" Reupke says, her moving images, "set
within the post-industrial age depict landscapes organised for economic gain
and social control, where technological progress, though impressive in scale
and ambition, retains an underlying element of threat." Visually beautiful
and delicately unsettling her work explores the tensions inherent in the
contemporary vista as interpret ed by technologies (both current and
historical), industry and inhabitants.

Several recent works will form part of the exhibition. Now Wait for Last
Year (2007) is made in response to the rapid developments in the
architecture of contemporary Beijing and was made whilst the artist was on
an Arts Council fellowship in China. Utilising 21st century techniques of
digital manipiulation this work contrasts with the historical nature of the
technology used to create  Land of Cockaigne (2007). This god's eye view of
the Sussex Downs was taken using the camera obscura at Foredown Tower in the
village of Portslade. Taking it's cue from early camera obscura
entertainments, fictional scenes are staged in the landscape which appear in
the footage from this one continuous camera movement.

Other works include Parc Naturel (2003), Untitled No1 and No2 (2006) and
Tignes (2005), Reupke's choreographed look at the French ski resort when
Summer and neglect conspire to disrupt the views from a selection of
'webcams'. Rachel Reupke was born in Henley-on-Thames in 1971 and studied at
Nottingham Trent University and Goldsmiths College, London. She now lives
and works in the British capital and recent exhibitions include  Land of
Cockaigne, Fabrica, Brighton; Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery,
Cork; Vidéo et après, Pompidou Centre, Paris (solo screening) and 24 Hour
Fresh Air, L'Espace Croisé, Roubaix.

Rachel Reupke is online at www.tank.tv
from 1st December 2007 - 1st January 2008.

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