Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth at The Barber Shop

In early April 2010, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth will realise a new project for The Barber Shop in Lisbon, curated by Spratt and Winkle Projects.

The Barber Shop – is an emerging space in Lisbon established by the curator Margarida Mendes. The Barber Shop’s programme focuses on inviting international curators to programme ephemeral projects which introduce new practices and dialogues to the City and contributes to the development of a critical debate within a cultural community.

Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth’s collaborative works play with the choreographed and the non-choreographed, the spontaneous and premeditated. Through and exploration of themes of the man-made and the natural, light and dark and operating between the boundary of representational and non-representational, their practice exploits the potential to create simple illusions with moving image.

Many of Coleman and Hogarth’s videos and performances involve visual simile or metaphor through the abstraction of everyday objects and actions and are often presented in ways in which refer back to their original subject matter, but also to the tools and actions involved in creating, compiling and editing them. The process of making is often part if their creative product, a praxis that they frequently desire the audience to be aware of.

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