The Screen
Neoclassicism and the weather Mary Vetisse
13 August - 31 August 2012
Neoclassicism and the weather is a new work that playfully weaves together found footage with video shot by the artist. It incorporates, amongst other things, the weather channel, fibreglass columns and the artist trying to dance, held together with a looping narrative that combines childhood memories and real-life occurrence with obscure and possibly incorrect information. The continued displacement and reinvestment in classical ideals of architecture and thought is teasingly turned over in a way that questions both the authority of fact and of lived experience.
Mary Vettise is a London based artist working primarily in video with a practice that also incorporates installation and performance. Her work negotiates structures and narratives in a poignant but also humorous way, combining personal anecdote with esoteric research. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2011 with a BA in Drawing and was a 2012 participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA. She was student prize winner at the Oriel Davies Open 2012, Newtown, Wales.
