Shift Announces Two New Exhibitions: Day Dreams and Night Realities May 5 through May 28, 2011
Opening: First Thursday, May 5 5-8pm Shift hours: Friday & Saturday 12-5pm Or by Appointment: info@shiftstudio.org
Shift Collaborative Studio is proud to present Jean Ploteau and Johanna Ringertz as part of its gallery exchange with Candyland in Sweden. Ringertz and Ploteau are two Stockholm based artists who use text, photography and performance art to comment on our common belief systems and modern human existence often with humor and great insight.
The Artist in His Studio I can’t sleep Jean Ploteau Johanna Ringertz  
Jean Ploteau’s “The Artist in his Studio” is a series of pictures based on photographs that he finds online of male artists in their studios. Sometimes they look like they are working with an art piece, other times they are just posing in front of their works. But each time, in a more or less conscious way, the pictures show the artist in his peculiar work place. They are very special environments arranged by the one who rules there. They also talk about how individuals value their artistic production and how they chose to present their own image and myth as an artist. In order to personalize his study, Ploteau has used Photoshop and replaced the artists' faces with his own and their works with some of his own work. Jean Ploteau was born in Grenoble, France. He has lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden since 1990.
Johanna Ringertz’s “I can’t sleep” is the trace of a one night long poem, following the red diode signs that radio-alarm produce between 0:00 and 7:00. As one is in bed lying on the side, the numbers cease to be intelligible symbols and start to look more and more like strange symbols. If a good sleep liberates one’s mind from big and small problems of everyday life, insomnia bring them back in full force at the worst moment possible for which to deal with them. … Or maybe not?
Johanna Ringertz was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She lives in Stockholm and works at a publishing house. CANDYLAND is an exhibition space in Stockholm since February 2004. It is run by ten people who take turns in producing art exhibitions: Malou Bergman, Alvaro Campo, Nadja Ekman, Mattias Larson, Tess Oweson, Alex Pacheco, Jean Ploteau, Andreas Ribbung, Johanna Ringertz & Johan von Schreeb. Visit www.candyland.se Shift is a collaborative artist’s studio that opened in the fall of 2004 in the renovated Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex. Shift was established as an artist-run space with the primary goal of supporting emergent, practicing Northwest artists. For more information, visit www.shiftstudio.org, find us on Facebook at Shift Collaborative Studio or e-mail info@shiftstudio.org |
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Candyland exchange- Daydreams and Night Realities |