Gery Georgieva
Image: Gery Georgieva, The Blushing Valley, install view
Talk & Dinner: Saturday 6th October 2018, from 6pm
Join us to hear more about Gery’s practice. This is a free event, however we would be very grateful for any donations in advance or on the night, which will help us to continue running events of this kind. Food will be vegetarian.
Open Evening: Tuesday 30th October 2018, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
A final chance to meet Gery and to see some of her work at the end of her residency period.
Biography
Gery is a graduate of the Royal Academy and Goldsmiths, who was commissioned by Frieze for her artist film programme in 2015 and is the 2017 recipient of the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award.
Her work encompasses video, performance, multimedia installations and occasional musical collaborations (under her stage name Vera Modena).
“Creating lo-fi assemblages and film sets in her studio for performative to-camera improvisations, she uses the immediacy of her own body as material to consider the construction of authenticity, taste and belonging. DIY glamour and an elaborate layering of references across costume, props and set create an ambiguous cultural vernacular often rooted in pop music, showbiz and traditional folk heritage. Revealing moments that capture the promise of empowerment, often constructed and filtered through multifarious layers of digital appropriation and mainstream manipulation, Georgieva examines how we configure and re-configure our cultural identities.” RA 2016