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Born in 1965 in London, Adam Chodzko lives and works in Whitstable, Kent. Chodzko uses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation and photography. His practice aims to question the notions of individualism and community. His projects stage collisions between personal values attached to private spaces, and the belief systems that regulate public places and collective gatherings. Layering fantasy and documentary as a means of bringing about these clashes, Chodzko explores the fringe sites where culture dissolves and disappears. Commissioned as part of the 2004 Frieze art fair, his project “Night Shift” is a map that plots out alternative routes through the kiosks following various animals’ trajectory (a deer, a snake, a wolf…) through the fair ground at night. Chodzko’s on-going project “Mask Filters” is a series of small net-like structures that can be affixed to film or photographic camera lenses. Rather than standing as autonomous objects to be contemplated from a distance, these sculptures create a disruption between viewing subjects and their surroundings.
Chodzko has recent and future solo exhibitions at Hugh Lane Gallery and various sites across Dublin (2007), MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2007), Tate St-Yves (2008) as well as Signal at Malmö, Sweden (2007). He has also had solo shows at Cubitt Gallery, London (2002) and Ikon Gallery Birmingham (1999). His work has notably been exhibited as part of Monuments for the USA at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and White Columns, New York (2005), Displacements British Art 1900 – 2005 at Tate Britain, London (2005), Romantic Detachment at PS1, New York (touring to Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff) (2004), Artifice at Deste Foundation, Athens (2001) and General Release, British Council selection for Venice Biennale, Scoula San Pasquale, Venice (1995). In 2002 he received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York.
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