Adam Chodzko

Adam Chodzko's work weaves new relationships between our value and belief systems, exploring their effect on our communal and private spaces through the documents and fictions that control, describe and guide them. Working directly with the networks of people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology, Chodzko focuses on the relational politics of culture's edges, endings, displacements, transitions and disappearances through a provocative looking in the 'wrong' places"–a search for knowledge through instability. Chodzko operates in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer. Intimate collections and ephemeral communities are frequently generated through his works; assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children “murdered” in a Pasolini film; a god look-alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; and a London gallery's archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital, to list a few.

He has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions including solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives, Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, as well as group exhibitions at Tate Britain in London, Istanbul Biennial, Venice Biennale, Deste Foundation in Athens, Raven Row in London, and PS1 in New York.

Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Contemporary