Claire Hooper
Claire Hooper describes her work as “essentially literary,” using a particular text and its inherent structures as a framework for new production, and exploring the porous boundary between a close reading and personal projection, the interior or underground space is associated with the psyche or dreaming mind. Although the themes are recurring, her new body of work presents a departure from video and into installation, using watercolor techniques to construct large-scale wall panel works on paper. One could say that this is like a theatrical backdrop using a set of ideas as actors, making an imagined space for the action to unfold. The space could be a room that might belong to part of a temple, raised to Ereshkigal, the goddess of the underworld in ancient Kutha, Mesopotamia; a temple which perhaps never existed.
Hooper has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally including IT Park, Taipei, ArtBasel 41, Basel, Hollybush Gardens, London, Sketch, London, Zabludowicz Collection at 176, London, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, ICA studio, London and LARM Gallery, Copenhagen. She is the 2010 winner of The Baloise Art Prize 2010, which honors two young artists every year and is presented at the ‘Art Statements’ sector of the International Art Basel.
Courtesy of Hollybush …
Claire Hooper describes her work as “essentially literary,” using a particular text and its inherent structures as a framework for new production, and exploring the porous boundary between a close reading and personal projection, the interior or underground space is associated with the psyche or dreaming mind. Although the themes are recurring, her new body of work presents a departure from video and into installation, using watercolor techniques to construct large-scale wall panel works on paper. One could say that this is like a theatrical backdrop using a set of ideas as actors, making an imagined space for the action to unfold. The space could be a room that might belong to part of a temple, raised to Ereshkigal, the goddess of the underworld in ancient Kutha, Mesopotamia; a temple which perhaps never existed.
Hooper has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally including IT Park, Taipei, ArtBasel 41, Basel, Hollybush Gardens, London, Sketch, London, Zabludowicz Collection at 176, London, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, ICA studio, London and LARM Gallery, Copenhagen. She is the 2010 winner of The Baloise Art Prize 2010, which honors two young artists every year and is presented at the ‘Art Statements’ sector of the International Art Basel.
Courtesy of Hollybush Gardens
