Liam Gillick in New York on Exhibition: "The problem is essentially a crisis in representation. These people in the film thought they were beyond difference." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
A married couple live in a fantastic house in London designed by late architect James Melvin. Their relationship to each other and to the building, their work as artists and how it relates to their bodies are exposed by Joanna Hogg in Exhibition.
Liam Gillick and I continue our conversation with an examination of a crisis in representation, the influence of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray, and how Valie Export and early Marina Abramovic informed Viv Albertine's portrait of the artist D. Ed Rutherford's cinematography, Liam's future in acting and the meaning of bare feet are also explored.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Where did you first see the finished film?
Liam Gillick as H on his belly in the grass with...
A married couple live in a fantastic house in London designed by late architect James Melvin. Their relationship to each other and to the building, their work as artists and how it relates to their bodies are exposed by Joanna Hogg in Exhibition.
Liam Gillick and I continue our conversation with an examination of a crisis in representation, the influence of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray, and how Valie Export and early Marina Abramovic informed Viv Albertine's portrait of the artist D. Ed Rutherford's cinematography, Liam's future in acting and the meaning of bare feet are also explored.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Where did you first see the finished film?
Liam Gillick as H on his belly in the grass with...
- 7/29/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exhibition
Written & Directed by Joanna Hogg
UK, 2013
Exhibition is a collection of moments that add up to something if the viewer is prepared to do the math. Plots, character arcs and narrative considerations are nowhere to be found in this art house offering from writer-director, Joanna Hogg. It’s an immersive visual experience, but its objectives remain tantalizingly out of reach. Challenging and uncompromising, this film is not for everyone. For cinephiles who enjoy the heavy lifting, however, there’s just enough weight to warrant the workout.
At its heart, Exhibition is a love triangle between two married artists and their modernist house. The husband, H (Liam Gillick), knows that it’s time to leave, but his wife, D (Viviane Albertine), is reluctant to accept the truth. We spend most of our time with D, quietly peering over her tightened shoulders. She’s a struggling performance artist who mixes sexuality...
Written & Directed by Joanna Hogg
UK, 2013
Exhibition is a collection of moments that add up to something if the viewer is prepared to do the math. Plots, character arcs and narrative considerations are nowhere to be found in this art house offering from writer-director, Joanna Hogg. It’s an immersive visual experience, but its objectives remain tantalizingly out of reach. Challenging and uncompromising, this film is not for everyone. For cinephiles who enjoy the heavy lifting, however, there’s just enough weight to warrant the workout.
At its heart, Exhibition is a love triangle between two married artists and their modernist house. The husband, H (Liam Gillick), knows that it’s time to leave, but his wife, D (Viviane Albertine), is reluctant to accept the truth. We spend most of our time with D, quietly peering over her tightened shoulders. She’s a struggling performance artist who mixes sexuality...
- 6/30/2014
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
★★★★★A man (H) and a woman (D) live together in a modernist house in London designed by the architect James Melvin in director Joanna Hogg's Exhibition (2013). Both are artists, though the specifics of their particular media are for the most part ambiguous, and they work and cohabit within a space defined by sliding doors, large windows and a central, spiral staircase. When H, played by the conceptual artist Liam Gillick, decides their 20 years within the house should come to an end - a decision met with trepidation by D (Viv Albertine) - what follows is a tautly realised exploration of space - that between lifelong companions, between work and home, interior and exterior and public and private life.
- 6/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Joanna Hogg's "Exhibition" closes with a dedication to architect James Melvin, an appropriate coda whether or not viewers recognize the name. Hogg's third feature magnifies the relationship between people and the spaces they live in with a keen eye for the way the two tend to blend together. At its center, middle aged couple H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick) and performance artist D (Viv Albertine, former guitarist for British punk band The Slits) prepare to move out of their spacious London home and cope with the impact of the move on every facet of their daily life. While H enjoys a high profile career in the art world, D struggles with a slew of identity crises brought on by the move. Hogg explores her character's confusions by turning the home into a physical manifestation of her mindset. The movie develops a hypnotic appeal through a succession of fragmentary moments: D,...
- 6/17/2014
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exhibition Kino Lorber Pictures Reviewed for Shockya by Tami Smith (Guest Reviewer). Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B+ Director: Joanna Hogg Screenplay: Joanna Hogg Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston, Harry Kershaw, Mary Roscoe and the”House” Opens: June 20, 2014 D “likes it fast” while H “likes to play”. After twenty years of such marital bliss this forty-something married artistic couple, without children, has decided to move on and sell their house. The house in question is not your ordinary flat but a towering citadel, in West London’s Chelsea neighborhood. It is a real house, not a set, which was built in 1969 by James Melvin, a modernist architect, [ Read More ]
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- 6/7/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Viv Albertine in Exhibition. "She was very honest in her approach. It's a balance where it's not her and where she puts herself into it" Exhibition is writer/director Joanna Hogg's third feature and she shows no signs of tiring in exploring themes of female sexuality and upper middle-class frostiness that marked out her earlier films Unrelated and Archipelago. This time, her focus is a middle-aged couple D and H (played by former punk band singer Viv Albertine and conceptual artist Liam Gillick) and the fractures that begin to show in their relationship once they decide to move from the designer house they live in, in London.
Hogg introduced the film and took part in a lively Q&A about it at Bradford International Film Festival last week. Speaking about the origins of the film, she explained how she came to know the architect who built it - James Melvin.
Hogg introduced the film and took part in a lively Q&A about it at Bradford International Film Festival last week. Speaking about the origins of the film, she explained how she came to know the architect who built it - James Melvin.
- 4/8/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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