Place Your Finger

Void Gallery, Derry

From - I Am What You’ve Come To See, 2019, curated by Mary Cremin

PLACE YOUR FINGER and follow the instructions

From: I Am What You’ve Come To See (2019) at Void Gallery, Derry. UK, Curated by Mary Cremin.

In all works of fiction there belies an agreement that the reader/the viewer will allow for a suspension of disbelief. In this exhibition I Am What You've Come To See, the three galleries at VOID are transformed into a circular narrative, casting the audience as its central protagonist in a kind of folie à deux. The viewer is compelled to move through the space by a series of scripted audio-visual instructions, staged objects and obtuse props that feign seemingly ungovernable chances in short shape-shifting journeys. The first work encountered by the viewer is 'Place Your Finger' - a video-work in which the image/idea communicates directly with the viewer-cum-artist as if it were alive. The 'image/idea' invites the viewer-cum-artist to collude with it in various actions until it is 'successful'. Written, performed and animated by Sonia Shiel. The conversation and role-play continues throughout the exhibition with an accompanying audio-work on individual Mp3’s.