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Naomi Jelilsh (Detail)
2002, Mixed media on paper, wood, glass, plastic clips |
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Installation New Contemporaries
2002, Mixed media on paper, wood, glass, plastic clips |
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b.1978 Leicester
2001-2003 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
1998-2001 BA (hons) Fine Art, Loughborough University
Fictional alter-egos are a strange species in art; a form of liberation from being responsible for your output, in a profession that can’t help itself when it comes to privileging the individual. Jamie Shovlin’s collection of drawings by the possibly real Naomi Jelish effect so many displacing jumps I no longer know where I am. Time, date, location, subject, author, neither a forgery, neither a document. But there’s a desperate melancholy about these images of smiling medical professionals assisting the citizens of an antique welfare state, because of all this layering going on – of things, time, people – all lost, vaguely retrievable through a few unauthenticated traces: The artist turned inventor of other people’s memories, Tyrrell in Bladerunner, fiction vanishing as each reality is bracketed by another point of view, purporting to be the ‘real’ real, from which the story is told, as in Nabokov’s Pale Fire.
Selectors comments; JJ Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren.
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