Booth F27
On the occasion of Frieze London 2024, Rose Easton is delighted to present new works by Eva Gold that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration of cinema and its mechanisms.
Together the works look critically at the ways in which memory is continually reformed, asking what implications this may have when attempting to form concrete definitions of truth and fiction. Bringing together interior and exterior worlds, the staged environment sits somewhere between a domestic space and a white cube. Evoking tv screens, or screen memories, the drawings foreground the act of looking, to question boundaries of space, privacy and consent.
The drawing series Acts of Violence reproduce stills from two films which depict buildings on fire. Both films engage with the ways in which we work through the past, reflecting on the malleability of memory, albeit in very different contexts. As a standalone gesture, the drawings evoke a kind of retinal burn bringing questions of blame and responsibility, while operating as a framing device for the text. Using narrative and essayistic voices, the text work explores agency, victimhood and ambiguous consent. When memories of past events can be continually reshaped in the present, the work asks what version of the truth do we choose to hold on to?
Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester, UK) lives and works in London, UK. After completing her BA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016, Gold went on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Art, London in 2019. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Shadow Lands, Silke Lindner, New York (2024); City of Rooms (part one) with Louise Bourgeois, Rose Easton, London (2023); City of Rooms (part two), Rose Easton at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); Slow Dance, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin (2022); The Last Cowboys, Ginny on Frederick, London (2022) and Perv City, at Parrhesiades in collaboration with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2020). Selected group exhibitions include Air de Repos, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR (forthcoming); SL x RE, Silke Lindner, New York (2024); Channel, organised by Figure Figure, CACN Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, FR (2024); The Living House, Van Gogh House, London (2023); Stilled Images, Tube Gallery, Palma de Mallorca; Ideal Shapes of Disappearing, Silke Lindner, New York (2023); Not before it has forgotten you, Nicoletti, London / The Pole Gallery, Paris (2022); Lock Up International, Brussels (2022); SEX, Rose Easton, London (2022); Corps, MAMOTH, London (2021); Sets & Scenarios, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2020); Barely Furtive Pleasures, Nir Altman, Munich (2020) and General Meeting, Freehouse, London (2019).
Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards