Bedroom
Beth Shapeero
Exhibition 29 -31 July 10am – 4pm
Private View Sat 29th July 4-6pm
Bedroom is an exhibition/residency taking place in Project Space One at Artpark (House for an Art Lover) by Beth Shapeero.
During the month of July an uncanny, show room style bedroom/studio is presented which acts as a workspace and a space where visitors are welcomed to get involved in the ideas, exploration and production of work taking place.
The works explore the relationship between the abstract nature of dreams and abstraction in visual art and how we can play with the edges of meaning, whether using narrative or a visual sense of understanding. Painterly works that have skin like surfaces have a sense of containment and fluidity, mirrored in the dream narratives. The dream recordings and the staged bedroom present an uncertainty of what is genuine and what is staged, how much performance and editing goes into relaying a dream? How real is the surface? How much do we display? Tension, yearning, what is controlled and what can be contained are at the centre of the work, yet, they are an abstracted reality, filled with uncertainty and enigma.
Throughout the residency Beth will be producing new 2D and 3D works, experimenting with different making techniques, abstraction and narrative to explore the relationship between these works. Viewers are encouraged to come in, relax on the bed whilst listening to dreams and record their own recollected dreams, the recorded dreams will then become part of the exhibit.
Beth Shapeero is a Glasgow based visual artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. Alongside making she creates projects which seek to break down barriers to people engaging in arts whilst further exploring her own practice and thinking. Recent projects and exhibitions include; Block., a commission for Tramway, Glasgow 2017, Dreams and Perfume, Glasgow Open House Festival 2017, The Clinic, Glasgow International 2016, Workings, Glasgow International 2016 and Le Swimming, Glasgow International 2014.