• Bettina Schroeder exhibiton in the gatehouse..
    Date: 12th June -- 3rd Oct

    If you go down to the woods!!... A journey through The Gatehouse Forest.... A must see exhibition... Starts on the 12th June til the 2nd October 2010..  

    http://www.bettinaschroeder.com/

    Statement from the Artist..

    If You Go Down To the Woods explores the theme of longing. A surreal for-est in the exhibition space creates the impression of a room that has long been forgotten, left unattended to slip away from reality. It entices the viewer to come in, explore the shadows and get lost amongst the trees.
    Like the woods in a fairy tale, there is danger in this strange environment. The trees are unnatural and unsettling, twisted and diseased, but at the same time prompt us to go further. As the viewer is drawn deeper it becomes uncertain whether they are really investigating, or whether perhaps they are already lost.
    If you go down to the woods is concerned with the attitude we have towards our own happiness, particularly in modern society where the media con-stantly encourages us to lust after what we don’t have. Just as the viewer is surrounded by the trees, crowding around on all sides, our consciousness becomes crowded by desire for all the things we don’t have, and through the forest we lose sight of what we do have, and what we actually need. The in-creasing feeling in modern society that our happiness must fit the media stereotype of ‘happily ever after’ and the confusion it creates is the theme at the heart of the installation.
    The exhibition demonstrates the effects of longing to the viewer by physically placing them in a ‘woods’ were they are unable to find their way out. It is a rare opportunity to explore our own subconscious in an external environ-ment.

    The Exhibition itself in the Gatehouse...

     

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