Activities
Fine Art
Awards
Biography
Emma Louise’s first states-based solo show took place in September, in Harlem, New York. Other shows include a solo show in Melbourne and a collection of group shows in Ireland, London, Melbourne and New York. Her recent London based shows included The Tate Exchange. She is an Irish artist who completed her Bachelors of Art in Limerick School of Art and Design. She went on to have a career in commercial Sculpture and Film. In recent years, Louise has turned her focus solely to her own practice.Emma Louise takes the mentality of a crowd as her point of departure. Her work investigates the instinctive movements of crowds, calling for an awareness of our complacent tendency to follow others. We have become ontological refugees, distanced from our own individuality. Each piece is an orchestrated investigation, an imperative lead to the next. Her crowd performance work results in an organic surfacing of mass ornament.
Her work centres around what commands people, what is their focus of attention and what drives our movements and tendencies. A monument is indicative of the focus of society. Though worshipping of the sun was replaced by worshipping people, her work restores the sun's ability to guide.
In this work, light commands the piece, which in turn commands the rhythms and motions of the crowd. Monuments are “activated” by the formation of the people who gather around them, the group becomes a monument in themselves, often surpassing the stagnant monument in form and significance.
Emma Louise's mass-crowd pieces were started pre-corona, yet the stark parallelism between them and the current Pandemic cannot be ignored.
Language
日本語
Place
N41FF / London
