Peninsular
1st March to 20th June 2008
Gallery 1, ICIA Bath
Gould’s work is an idiosyncratic examination of imagined emptiness in psychological spaces and geographical places. It is an exploration of how journeys and narratives link the two.
The work in Peninsular has its origins in some drawings that Gould made of her father while he lay dying. In that time of waiting with nothing to be done, she made a few drawings of him against the white expanse of the bed sheets.
Approaching the third anniversary of his death, and still perplexed
by this hiatus, this halt in temporal progression that mourning had
produced in her, she resolved to break open time with a journey through space, to one of the most remote and least human places in the world; the Antarctic Peninsular. She took the drawings of him with her, and set them out, there, amongst the penguins and ice and the white expanse of glaciers.
This exhibition explores mourning, melancholia, and the romantic theme of the artist's lonely journey into awesome and sublime nature, using video, photography and drawing made during her trip to the Antarctic Peninsular
