See You, See Me

Curated by Angeliki Charitou, Emilio Gil, Pei Huang, Han Zhou

Private View: 3^rd June, 2010, 6-9pm

Time: 4^th-27^th June, 2010, daily 10am -6pm

Venue: The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, London, SE14 6LG

Reflection as a physical phenomenon is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. From human behaviour perspective, reflection is an active process rather than passive thinking. The image of looking at oneself in a mirror, suggested by the word, means that it has implications of being conscious of what one is doing. Reflection could also imply the process of reviewing an experience by trying to describe, analyse or evaluate it.

‘See you, see me’ is a dialogue between the artist and the observer, the observer and the artwork, the observer and the surrounding environment and also a dialogue between two friends or even between two strangers who are exploring the same artwork at the same time.

All the artists in the exhibition have produced artwork that focus on reflection either in a metaphorical or in literal way. By presenting artwork of various scale and media like photography, water and mirror installations, artists engage the audience to take active role in order to establish a convenient and effective dialogue.

Is what you see and experience an illusion, a mirroring, a metaphor, a reflection or a reality? This is for you to explore and discover…

Participating artists include:

Miru Kim, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Sarah Doyle, Lynda Cornwell, Peter Doig, Jaume Plensa, Michael Cross, Banks Violette, Bengt Sjolen & Adam Somlai-Fischer, Daniel Rozin

Thank you to our partners and sponsors:　

Arts Council England

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from the Government and the National Lottery. Grants for the arts are for activities carried out over a set period and which engage people in England in arts activities, and help artists and arts organisations in England carry out their work.

The Elephant Trust

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The Elephant Trust is a charity which was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the United Kingdom.

The London Stained Glass

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The London Stained Glass Company, which specialises in Contemporary & Traditional Stained Glass, prides itself on providing the very best in commissioned stained glass. All our stained glass is created exclusively for each client to suit their individual taste and style. Our specialist service is designed to appeal to those who seek to explore the benefits of imaginative stained glass for both decorative and functional applications.

Louis Poulsen

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Louis Poulsen Lighting is an international corporation that markets and distributes electrical equipment and develops, produces and sells luminaries.

The Old Police Station Gallery

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Lewisham Council

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Artist-Lynda Cornwell

Lynda is fascinated by kaleidoscopes and the infinite reflections that can be generated very simply by looking through a hexagonal or triangular tube.Using mirrored card, then mirrored steel she fashioned her own kaleidoscopes to produce unusual effects. Whilst the multiple images immediately tell it is a kaleidoscope, it is not always so easy to see what objects are being reflected. She likes to include strange objects, or perhaps everyday objects seen out of context, to produce bizarre images.Lynda likes the possibilities for illusion and the idea that innately ambiguous signals from the eyes to the brain can be interpreted in several ways. So making images that confuse and make viewers work at understanding is key for her. And if they find them amusing that's good too.

Lynda graduated from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2003 with a first class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Practice and has a MA Drawing As Process from Kingston University and a HND Fine Art Amersham & Wycombe College. At the moment she teaches drawing in Beaconsfield and Chorleywood. Lynda has participated in numerous shows since 2001, such as the Graduate Show of Amersham & Wycombe College, the St Martin's Gallery, St Martin's-in-the-Field in London, the Lennox Gallery, Moore Park Road, London SW6 and in the MA show, Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower, London.

Artist-Sarah Doyle

The nexus treatment, 2008, art, animation, sculpture

Sarah Doyle has created Victorian animation tools shaped as crystals to watch looped hypnotising animations. The hand drawn animations show imitation of movements seen in popular culture. Staring at the animations in the facets of spinning jewelled mirrors created by the artist puts the viewer into an almost dreamlike state. The images from popular media which we know so well from our collective consciousness, revealed in the facets of the jewels are repeated, when cut from their original meaning become obsessive rhythmic movements.

Sarah studied Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins college of Art in London. She was the winner of the New Artist Category at The Elle Style Awards. Doyle has shown internationally in Japan and the Michael Jackson gallery in Germany. Her animation work was shown at the Whitechapel, Gasworks and The Portman gallery among others. She was part of Splashdown for Space Station Sixty-Five during the Whitstable Biennale 2006 and will be undertaking a commission for Space Station Sixty-Five during 2008.

Artist-Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Top left: dirty white trash, top right: he/she, bottom left: sunset over manhattan , bottom right: real life is rubbish, sculptures

Tim Noble and Sue Webster, England based artists, are known for magically transforming garbage into art. They sculpt piles of street rubbish, studio debris, and taxidermy animals into astonishing representations of life with “real” shadows of the artists themselves hovering over their accumulations of discarded objects. These abstract forms mysteriously reverse the abstraction into figuration. Their work derives much of its power from its fusion of opposites, form and anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, male and female, craft and rubbish, sex and violence. It is an art of magic and illusion, but it is also an art of direct experience, by combining elements of sculpture, advertising and the persona, the artists have succeeded in making their lives and the experience of the viewer part of the art.

Sue and Tim met whilst studying on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University in the 80's.Few years later Tim also received a MA in Sculpture from the Royal Collage of Art. Since their first solo show in London in 1996, British Rubbish, Noble & Webster have enjoyed international recognition with solo exhibitions at The Freud Museum,London, 2006, CAC Malaga,2005, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK,2002 and Deste Foundation, Athens, 2000.

Artist-Miru Kim

Naked City Spleen, Les Catacombes de Paris, photographic prints

Naked City Spleen, River Tyburn, London, photographic prints


Miru Kim is an artist, photographer and illustrator. She ventures into places to make her art that most of us would neither enter nor risk arrest to be in: underground tunnels, sewers, abandoned factories, power plants, the tops of bridges and churches. Once she arrives at these hidden and desolate places, Kim explores the setting, finds the best point of view, puts her camera on a tripod, and removes her clothes — in order to take some of the most engaging photographs of the moment. Her pose isn’t flashy or provocative; instead, Kim becomes one with the space she inhabits. She researches each site and learns its history and considers how the body, which metaphorically could be that of a child or an animal, might approach it. These abandoned and hard to find places become her playgrounds, where art can be made.


Kim was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 but was raised in Seoul, Korea. She moved back to Massachusetts in 1995 to attend Phillips Academy in Andover and moved to New York City in 1999 to attend Columbia University. In 2006, she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. One of her recent exhibition took place at the gallery HYUNDAI Gangnam Space at the end of August 2009.

Artist- Michael Cross

Michael Cross
















Bridge, 2006, interactive installation& video

The Bridge is a series of steps which rise up out of the water in front of you as you walk from one to the next, and then disappear back underneath behind you as you go. The bridge ends in the middle of the water, where you find yourself totally isolated, just surrounded by water and your own reflections. Cross described the experience as dream-like, and alien to the everyday life. The piece would deal in fear and delight, anxiety and peace.

Michael Cross graduated from The Royal College of Art, London in 2004 with an MA in Design Products. Current exhibitions include Get It Louder, Shin Kong Place, Beijing and Daning Life Hub, Shanghai; Bridge, Dilston Grove, London; My World, Design Museum, London; British Design, Droog, Amsterdam; Great Brits, The New Alchemists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; European Design Show, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield

Artist-Matthew Booth

Matthew Booth















Self Portrait in Black 2007, hand-printed C-Type 40x50















Ryan Mosley-The Great Exhibition, Royal College of Art 2007, hand-printed C-Type 40x50


Booth created a series of ‘black photos’ by shooting the reflections of people or scenes in a black mirror. He is concerned with the depiction of reality and its picture (i.e. reflection), as well as the materiality of this picture and the context in which a viewer might encounter it. He described black photograph as a photograph of nothing. It has an ambiguous symbolism; the void creates a space within which the viewer can reflect upon himself or herself and the space in which the photograph is placed.

Matthew Booth (b. 1978) lives and Works in London. He graduated from Royal College of Art in 2007 with an MA in Photography. His works are recently shown in RWA Open, Bristol; Hoopers Gallery, London; The Great Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London and Dialectic Showcase, The Glass House, Coventry. His work has been selected for Hamish Edgar private collection and Hoopers Gallery private collection in 2007. Booth has participated 2006 Poverty Ticker Project (Photographed in Tanzania).

Artist- Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa

The Crown Fountain, 2004, glass& video, Millennium Park, Chicago

Spanish sculptor Plensa focuses on the human experience of standing in between. In this public art project, he works on an ancient symbol ‘fountain’ - a place where once people came to obtain water and to meet. Their images and ideas are reflected onto each other. A dialogue is created between the fountain and people, and among those people. This fountain consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. Video images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago citizens are projected on LED screens on towers. Water flows out of the sculptured open mouth.

Jaume Plensa (b. 1955 in Barcelona) currently resides between Barcelona and Paris. He studied in the "Llotja" School and the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Europe, the United States and Japan: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain); Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax (United Kingdom); the Arts Club Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA), etc. Plensa’s upcoming personal exhibitions will be at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA in 2010 and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoon Kaupunk, Finland in 2011.

Artist- Daniel Rozin

Daniel Rozin

Wooden Mirror, 1999, 830 wood pieces, motors, video camera, control electronics, custom software, microcontroller, 61 x 70 x 8" / 155 x 178 x 20 cm

Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. The viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. In Wooden Mirror, he created an interactive sculpture where the wooden pixels reflect any object or person in front of it, moving fast enough to create live animation. The movements of wooden pixels produce a sound when something moves in front of the mirror. This provides a secondary feedback to the image.

Daniel Rozin(b. 1961) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at bitforms gallery, New York; Reflection, at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain; Ars Electronica; Jamaica Center for the Arts in New York; Art Interactive in Cambridge; Lincoln Center; InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, etc. His new mirror sculptures were also shown at Reina Sofía, Madrid; V&A museum, London.

Artists- Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer

Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer






















Aleph reorganizing vision, 2007, outdoor installation

Aleph is an experimental public display. Adam and Bengt built a matrix of small mirrors, which can adjust their tilt according to the site they are facing. Thus, they created a display that uses the changing flux of the place to show images from certain points in space. A computer is using cameras to continuously analyze the surroundings, implement interaction and distribute targeting information to a network of microcontrollers positioning the mirrors.

Bengt( b.1972) is a self-educated software and hardware designer. He currently collaborates all over europe on projects merging media art, technology and architecture experimenting with social and physical spaces. His work has been exhibited at ISEA(San Jose, US, 2006 and Helsinki, Finland, 2004) and Ludwig Muzeum(Budapest, Hungary), etc.
Adam (b. 1976 Budapest) graduated from the Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory, Stockholm. His projects were shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture2004, 2006, ISEA 2004 Helsinki and 2006 San Jose, Ars Electronica 2006, Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Ludwig Museum Budapest. Adam has been working as a guest researcher at the Smart Studio, Interactive Institute in Stockholm, the MOKK Media Research and is directing aether architecture, an office for mediated environments.

Artists- Banks Violette

Banks Violette

Mirror Wall, 2007, Steel frames, steel tracking, laminated mirror glass, steel rods, hydraulic and electrical components,250 x 960 x 300 cm

Violette refers to an over-identification with fiction, where fantasy and reality are blurred. Mirror Wall involves a process where 12 tons of pneumatic pressure is applied to steel frames holding 28 mirrors, resulting in plenty of shattered glass -- a frozen gesture of proven allegorical potency. It indexes an unrecognized iconographic phenomenon in contemporary art—reflected figures a pair of asymmetrical figures, usually two three-dimensional forms, that are mirror images of one another.

Banks Violette( b. 1973) graduated from Columbia University, New York in 2000 and School of the Visual Arts, New York, 1998. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Maureen Paley, London; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels ; Galerie Thaddaeu Ropac, Salzburg; Team Gallery, New York, NY. He has been selected for group exhibitions When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle; My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels. His works were also shown at The Royal Academy, London and MOMA, New York. He has been awarded Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant 2000.