Emily Wardill
Emily Wardill’s works are best known for their sensual and psychologically charged refracted narratives. Wardill’s films, photographic works, drawings, and props investigate the complexities of communication and representation, the limitations and imprecision of language, and the point at which the immaterial adopts the material through insinuation.
Emily Wardill (b. 1977, United Kingdom) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Shortlisted for the Pinchuk Art Prize in 2011, she won among other the Jarman Arward and The Wiesbaden Grant: Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon and Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen. She has had solo exhibitions at Lund Konsthall, Lund; Centre d’art Contemporain Genève; Salzburg Kunstverein; La Loge, Brussels; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; The Showroom Gallery, London; Spacex, Exeter; De Appel, Amsterdam; London ; Nassauischer Kunstverein; and Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London. Her works have also been included in group exhibitions at the Sydney Biennial; Venice Biennale; Tate Britain, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; and MOCA, Miami.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
Emily Wardill. Matt Black and Rat, exhibition view at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2017.
Photo: Carlos Azevedo.
Matt, 2017
Rayogram, 136 x 126 cm
No Trace of Accelerator, 2017, film still
Matt Black and Rat, exhibition view at Bergen Kunsthall 2017. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.
An Easy Swan, 2016
resin cast relief, 100 x 100 cm
Crimp, 2016, resin cast relief, 80 x 70 cm
House, 2016, resin cast relief, 100 x 100 cm
I gave my love a cherry that had no stone, 2016, digital video, 9 min
When you fall into a trance, 2014, Video projection with sound, 72 min
Gorky’s Fire, 2015, from the series Fire Shakes Itself in the Air, marbling on paper, 108 x 87 x 4 cm, unique
Black and White Blaze, 2015, from the series Fire Shakes Itself in the Air, marbling on paper, 114 x 90 x 4 cm, unique
The Palace, 2014, 16 mm, b/w film, optical sound, 7.22 min
Credits 2, 2013, Rayograph, 170 x 96 cm, unique
Credits 4, 2013, Rayograph, 170 x 96 cm, unique
Credits 5, 2013, Rayograph, 170 x 96 cm, unique
Credits 7, 2013, Rayograph, 170 x 96 cm, unique
The Third Person, 2012, digital HD double screen projection, 43.50 min
found himself in a walled garden on the top of a high mountain, and in the middle of it a tree with great birds on the branches, and fruit out of which, if you held a fruit to your ear, came the sound of fighting, 2012, Video projection with sound, 36 min
The Pips, 2011, 16 mm film transferred to DVD, 4 min
Fulll Firearms, 2011, Video Projection with 5.1 sound, 82 min
Game Keepers without Game, 2009, Video projection with 5.1 sound, 72 min
The Diamond (Descartes Daughter), 2008, 16mm, installation with stereo sound, 10 min
SEA OAK, 2008, 16mm, installation, 51 min
Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck, 2007, 16mm, installation with stereo sound, 12 min
Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul, 2006, 16mm, installation with stereo sound, 9 min
Basking in what feels like ‘an ocean of grace’, I soon realise that I’m not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognising myself, 2006, 16mm, installation with stereo sound, 8 min
Ben, 2006, 16mm, installation with stereo sound, 10 min
