Charlotte Moth

The starting point of Charlotte Moth's (* 1978, UK) artistic work is the Travelogue, a collection of analogue photographs continuously expanded since 1999. This collection unites images of various architectural situations within Europe and further a-field - hotel lobbies, gardens, seaside resorts, or deserted office spaces - sites that share a special sculptural quality.

The Travelogue is to be understood neither as an autonomous work nor as a mere archive. Instead, it functions as an image bank for a visual vocabulary questioning the way we perceive places. At the same time, this method formulates a thinking that always works on notions of process, seriality, form, time, and speculation, too. The photographs are not documents or exemplary expressions, but "containers for thought" and incentives to view architectures, spaces and sites in a phenomenological way. There are rarely indications of the pictures' origins. This lack of concrete information creates a space for assumptions, imaginations that require timelessness and the quality of being out of place in order to unfold. Here the ability of an isolated image to make reference to a single moment and also to, within the context of other images, embody a collection of innumerable moments in the sense of untold stories is evident in the process of collecting.

Charlotte Moth activates this potential inherent to the photos in different forms, depending on the respective underlying idea: Site-specific installations, sculptures, photo-films or series of pictures, written and spoken texts can temporarily make individual parts of the Travelogue concrete as more or less self-contained works for the duration of an exhibition, without, however, permanently determining them and thus putting them at the risk of being exhausted.


Charlotte Moth, "Behind every surface there is a mystery: a hand that might emerge, an image that might be kindled, or a structure that might reveal its image", 2009, View Schaufenster Kunstverein for the Rheinlande and Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

Charlotte Moth, "at the time of dawn and dusk volumes appear and disappear", 2008, book detail

Charlotte Moth, image from the "Travelogue"

Curriculum vitae
   
Born 1978 in Carshalton/London, UK
Lives and works in France and the UK
   
2005 - 2006 Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht
2002 - 2006 Slade School of Art, University College London
2000 BA Hons Fine Art. Kent Institute of Art and Design at Canterbury

 

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2009 Behind every surface there is a mystery, Kunstverein of Rheinlande and Westfalen (Schaufenster), Düsseldorf
  It's not for reading. It's for making. Chapter 2. Formcontent, London
2008 potentional narratives, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Process Room), Dublin
  two of a kind, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart
2006 Installation for Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Dolores), Amsterdam

 

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2009 Répetoire pour une forme, La Vitrine ENSAPC, Paris
2008 Threealities, Unosunove, Rome
  Io Sfumato, Associazione Marco Magnani, Sardinia
  Los Vinilos, Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy, London
  Travelogue, One in the other, London
  Object, The deniable Success Of Operations, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
  Carte Blanche à Charlotte Moth, Gallery Lucile Corty, Paris
  Pavillon 7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007 The Film as a page of Victor Hugo rewritten in the style of Nerval, Jet, Berlin
  The First Antechamber, Project. Dublin
  Hope and Despair, Cell Projects, London
  Citadel. Front room killing room. David Risley Gallery, London
  Drawing, Peter Fillingham and Charlotte Moth, Traders Pop, Maastricht
2006 Resonance. Or how one reality can be understood through another, Artis, Den Bosch (NL) / STUK, Leuven

 

Curatorial Projects
2008 BaliceHertling - presents at home - Perfect. Rupert Norfolk and Henry Coleman
2006 - 2007 falkeandcharlotte. A collaborative project working with Falke Pisano. Ellen de Bruijne projects Amsterdam

 

Publications, reviews and articles
2009 Alfonsi, Isabelle. Portfolio, Art21, Issue 22
2008 Beton Brut, Oct 08. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Dusseldorf, insert
  Sang Bleu. Le Pavillon Laboratoire de Creation Du Palais de Tokyo with Emmanuelle Antille
  Alfonsi, Isabelle. Betonsalon evening, Code magazine, Brussels. September issue
2007 Clancy, Luke. The First Antechamber, Art Review, Issue 12
  Stott,Tim. The First Antechamber, Circa Magazine, Summer 2007