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* 1966, Exeter, Wales. Lives and works in London
British artist
Known for: Art Walks, works that are developed through (collaborative) walking and talking
Exhibited works
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Gallery Space Recall, 2006. 1st | A | "Simon Pope invites you to recall, from memory, a walk through a gallery space, and explore the spatial, social and professional relations contained within it. you are asked to summon-up these remote spaces - through memory, body, speech and movement – so that they exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there. All are welcome to ‘walk and talk’, recalling a description of a familiar gallery space, as if you were walking through it. Simon Pope questions the consequences of this for the gallery as a ‘site’ of artwork? Can the gallery be ‘empty’ space waiting for work to fill it? What does it mean to think of this ‘place’, not as unique and differentiated, but rather deeply related and connected to other ‘places’? What is produced when professional ranks, such as curators, administrators and trustees other than the artist, are invited to be itinerant in the production of an artwork? Gallery Space Recall was developed as part of Walking Here And There, a research project undertaken in collaboration with the psychologist Vaughan Bell." (Excerpt of the exhibition text, Chapter gallery in Cardiff) | |
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Credits All reproductions are courtesy of the artist © Simon Pope, Rokfoto, 2006 | ||