SIDIKA OWEN d’HAUTEVILLE - The End of
Things
Coningsby Gallery
London
30 Tottenham Street
W1T 4RJ
Gallery opening times:
10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
T. 020 7 636 1064
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29th November – 4th December 2010
Private View: Thursday 2nd
December 6 – 9:30 pm
The Coningsby Gallery is pleased to
present The End of Things, Sidika Owen d’Hauteville’s first solo
exhibition at the gallery. A private viewing will be held on the 2nd of December
at the Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London W1.
For the first
time, Sidika will present a series of photographs depicting her inward journey
which reconciled her with the idea of things coming to an end.
All
through our existence, we experience the sadness of renouncing things or beings.
Over the years, we also have to mourn certain certitudes, certain hopes, certain
capabilities, certain projects, certain desires. We are forced to accept that
chapters of our life will close for ever, and this renouncement creates an
ambivalent feeling: sad because of the loss it represents, and happy at the same
time thanks to the promise of a new beginning.
These mourning events are
intrinsic to life, but they are, however, not always easy to overcome. The crows
symbolise the demons that we must fight, sometimes against our will, in order to
free ourselves and follow our route.
Sidika does not seek to
inspire fear and anguish in front of the irreversibility of death. She uses in
her photographs the theme of mourning in all of its dimensions, rather than in
the ultimate dimension of death which shuts life down.
The photographs
have as a backdrop a music score from the Unfinished Symphony of Schubert.
“I like the fact
th
at the symphony is said to have no end and yet it is one of the most played
symphonies in the world. Whether it was left unfinished, or whether it was
composed this way with an end that nobody recognises, this oeuvre does not stop
being played over and over nevertheless. The music carries on well after the
last music score; it never stops, transcending its own finality”.
Separately, the artist will also show a series of prints on the theme of
childhood’s carefree joy.
Sidika was born in Brazil, of
Anglo-Turkish origins but lives and works in London. She studied Economics at
the London School of Economics and Fine Arts at the New York School of Visual
Arts. Sidika also trained as a classical Sculptor in the workshops of Luc Veger
in the South of France and in London.
For more information on the
artist, please visit www.sidika-art.co.uk
