January 12, 2016
2-TIMES · Art
Zoe Williams,
'Pel'
—
Lives / works:
London.
Title reference:
Taken from the
old French
diminutive for
skin, Williams's
new installation
titled 'Pel,'
touches on
ideas of
seduction,
sensuality and
transgression –
where the body
and surface are
manipulated and
confused through
their depiction
at close quarters,
in order to create
a mergence or
cross contamination
between silk,
skin, fur and
precious gems.
The installation:
Is intended to
function as
a texture of
sensual experience,
conveying both
eroticism and a
lingering hint of
anxiety or nausea,
evoking the
paranoid eye
of a late night
encounter or the
fitful scanning of
unobtainable
items in a
jewellery
store window.
Works exhibited:
The gallery has
been transformed
into a space to
simultaneously
watch and inhabit
Zoe's new moving
image work and
commissioned
soundtrack — set
amongst a collation
of furs and golden
cigarette butts
which embellish
and bejewel a
dusk blue carpet
accompanied by a
heady mix of strong
perfume, cognac and
slowly souring cream.
On view at:
Galerie Antoine Levi
—
44 Rue Ramponeau,
75020 Paris, France.
Closes:
January 21, 2016.