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Title: Pyramid
Location: Info sign: Coastal Park, at the base of the Leas Cliff Hall and Film screening: The Stone Store, Shakespeare Terrace
Chodzko's 'Pyramid' is nothing less than “the creation of a myth”. This is articulated through a film set somewhere between the past and the future of Folkestone, and a 'fake' visitor information sign. The information sign is placed in the Coastal Park, beneath the steel support structure of the overhanging terrace of the Leas Cliff Hall.
Both the film and its associated 'evidence' deal with the fact that these supporting girders delineating four inverted pyramids, "arguably one of the most quintessential sculptural forms” (Chodzko). The work explores artifice, superstition (inverted pyramids as sign of bad luck) and make belief. For his ‘fake’ documentary’, Chodzko meddles with the existing landscape and the day to day life of Folkestone, blurring fantasy and reality. the town's flora and fauna also become duplicit in his utopian narrative.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Adam Chodzko with Pyramid, 2008. Photograph © Gautier Deblonde
Adam's Biography
Born UK, 1965. Lives and works in Whitstable, Kent.
Photo: Neil loman
Recent solo exhibitions include
Dublin City Art Gallery – Ireland 2007
MAMbo – Bologna 2007
Signal – Malmo, Sweden 2007
Cubitt – London 2002
Recent group exhibitions include
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade 2007
One Brief Moment, apexart – New York 2006
British Art Show 6, Newcastle (touring), 2005/06
Forthcoming is a solo exhbition at Tate St Ives, May 2008. In 2007 Chodzko was offered a three year AHRC Creative Arts Fellowship with the University of Kent and in 2002 received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY, USA.
See Adam Chodzko's work
www.adamchodzko.com/