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'FAKE REAL DEAD' (collage, photography, wet changing to cracked dry clay, metal clay tool). Questions online news, as well as the sadness of the stories highlighted. This work considers the story of the baby dolphin that got pulled out the water in Argentina by a crowd in 2016, its representative to venerability, genuineness and authenticity and how we protect ourselves in the face of fakery. The two hands in the image represent power and control and looks at body language. It has been said, that should you pet a dolphin from above you devalue and quash and bring confidence stroking from below their jaw. The clay will dry on the journey to each home and crumble and change, each person and place will have an affect on the work. |
Leila Houston (London, 1977) is a visual artist whose work has often explored the social, political and historical aspects of a place and the impact we have on our environments.Working predominantly with video, sound and structure, much of her artwork has cultivated immersive atmospheres for the spectator, often inviting them to take part or contribute to the work.
Houston uses site-responsive installations to investigate the connections between the external atmosphere and the internal sensation within places, providing reflections on the language of architecture and the associations we draw through memory and the senses.
Houston uses site-responsive installations to investigate the connections between the external atmosphere and the internal sensation within places, providing reflections on the language of architecture and the associations we draw through memory and the senses.
Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich (website here) Our work explores the space between what exists and what is possible. Within this liminal space we create objects and situations that lead our audience on transformative experiences inviting them to consider an other way of being. We ask participants in our work to examine their relationship to the environment they inhabit and reflect on a larger global situation. We are interested in arts potential to act as a catalyst for social and political transformation. At the heart of our work is the pursuit of an ideal and the question - is it possible for Art, and more particularly our practice to provide practical, aesthetic and poetic solutions to social political and environmental problems? Our work crosses between the gallery space and the public realm; we use installations, social sculptures, and public performances as tools to open up a space where the possible and the actual come together. Here we can collectively begin to question the limits of society and imagine a better world. We believe that through experiencing something even for a moment can start a powerful process of changeWe work in response to specific sites and communities drawing on an environment and its people to form the work. We employ a strong aesthetic language that keys into the popular imaginary as useful and effective communication tools from which a complex discourse unfolds, crossing boundaries both | geographical, social and metaphorical. Through the playful nature of the work and engagement with of the process participants become involved in events and situations that open up discussion around subjects like the pursuit of happiness, open boarders, and the nature of belief. Our aim has been and is to exploit the power of this aesthetic language to its full potential as a catalyst for change in both localised communities and on a wider global scale Art Lending Library: with Market Gallery at GI - Glasgow International May 2012 |
A local voice, conversation series iiii, collective sculpture - essay booklet (click to view)
LEILA HOUSTON PORTFOLIO (CLICK TO VIEW)
a local voice video (click to view)
| A Video, sound & installation Showing at Summer Art Thread LCB Depot, Leicester 26:08:17 11:00- 21:00 An expansive collaboration between Leila Houston, participants and musicians. |
The Crash, London
A Local Voice exhibition set-up at Summer Art Thread (part of City Festival), LCB Depot, Leicester, UK.
Photo by Phil Dickson-Earle
Photo by Andy Valente
Summer Art Thread (part of City Festival), LCB Depot, Leicester, UK, 28.8.17
A Local Voice, participatory event at Two Queens Project space & Studio, 5-6.8.17. Photography by Leila Houston and Tove Dalenius.
Technical support & Artist Tove Noorrjahaan Dalenius & Artist assistant- Jodie Shadforth taken just before two day work shop
my Studio at Two Queens
On the radio with Anna Laurini THE NEWS AGENTS Resonance FM (listen here)
Performance by Anne Imhof work, Faust, German pavilion. Venice
"Freedom and the question of what keeps people together and indeed what drives people apart?"
"Freedom and the question of what keeps people together and indeed what drives people apart?"
David Medella in Giardini Venice Biennale
Venice Conversation Series III, screening at Empire II in London. Photo by Jessica Baley.
The Journey of Empire II exhibition & The Crash
Fit the Slit, artist collaboration in Venice.
Working in clay with Dean Allen at his studio in Nottingham
media highlights
Artist’s work on isolation joins select company, Leicester Mercury newspaper, 18.6.17
The Newsagents, Resonance radio 104.4fm, 8.7.17
Feature: Leila Houston, The Great Central magazine, 8.6.17
Graduate Leila Houston sees her work showcased in world-leading arts festival in Venice, De Montfort University, 23.5.17
Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia, FAD: cool art & stuff, 7.5.17
Vanya Balogh Curates Immersive Film Hub Satellite Project For 56th Venice Biennale, Artlyst, 6.4.17
A Local Voice – Art connects with Leicester community, Arts Council England, 23.8.17
Age of Anxiety, :venews magazine, issue 216 venice guide
The Newsagents, Resonance radio 104.4fm, 8.7.17
Feature: Leila Houston, The Great Central magazine, 8.6.17
Graduate Leila Houston sees her work showcased in world-leading arts festival in Venice, De Montfort University, 23.5.17
Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia, FAD: cool art & stuff, 7.5.17
Vanya Balogh Curates Immersive Film Hub Satellite Project For 56th Venice Biennale, Artlyst, 6.4.17
A Local Voice – Art connects with Leicester community, Arts Council England, 23.8.17
Age of Anxiety, :venews magazine, issue 216 venice guide
Leila Houston
Leila Houston (London, 1977) is a visual artist whose work investigates the social, political and historical aspects of a place.