Post Factum, 2023
As part of the Biennial ‘23 programme, coinciding with Liverpool Biennial 2023, The Royal Standard presents ‘Post Factum’, a show that revisits and re-imagines recent body’s of work of two artists, playing with the notion of a retrospective. Sculpture appears here as artefact, bolstering the film and sound arrangements.
The work ‘A History of Practice’, presented in the form of a light box, encases a facsimile of a hand written list, serving as an inventory - alluding to other works created, and exists as a votive offering, supports the other works, operating as ‘reminiscences’ or artefact - ‘post-factum’ in nature.
Installation view. Post Factum: An exhibition by Cos Ahmet & Gary Finnegan, part of Biennial 23, The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
Post Factum, 2023
Installation detail view. Lightbox, objects, film, sound, sculptural perspex screens, drapes, scaffold sheeting. Dimensions variable
Post Factum, 2023
Installation detail of ‘Transmitting’. Film and sound sculpture, sculptural perspex screens, drapes. Dimensions variable
Post Factum, 2023
Installation detail of ‘A Meniscus (Between). Film and sound, sculptural perspex screens, drapes. Dimensions variable
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘Linear’. Dimensions 70cm approx, with the film ‘A Meniscus (Between)’.
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘A History of Practice’ 30cm x 42cm x 10cm; with ‘Linear’, 70cm approx
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘A History of Practice’. Light box, printed facsimile of a hand-written list on paper, serving as an inventory. 30cm x 42cm x 10cm
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘A History of Practice’. Light box, printed facsimile of a hand-written list on paper, serving as an inventory
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view, of ‘A History of Practice’, ‘Linear’ and ‘Relic (diptych)’. Dimensions variable
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘Relic (diptych)’. Clear tape. Dimensions: 40cm x 40cm x 11.5cm and 40cm x 40cm x 13cm
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘Relic (diptych)’
Post Factum, 2023
Detail view of ‘Relic (diptych)’
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
As part of the exhibition ‘CLEARANCE’, staged in the former Liverpool department store ‘Lewis’s’, the artists Cos Ahmet & Gary Finnegan (both LSAD Alumni), worked in collaboration to create a film and sound installation, shown alongside other graduates & Alumni of the MA Fine Art programme, at John Moores, Liverpool School of Art & Design.
Incorporating various newspaper article pages that cover the windows of this former department store, the space is submerged in a half-light, that simultaneously illuminates the panels like stained glass in a pseudo-catherdral setting. The moving images that occupy the space are mirrored in the reflections from its metal floors, making this a fully immersive film and sound experience.
Video documentation. Three channel film & sound installation. In collaboration with Gary Finnegan. Part of the LSAD Alumni group exhibition ‘CLEARANCE’, The Lewis’s Building (a former dept. store), Liverpool.
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
Installation (detail view)
Neither Parallel Nor At Right Angles, 2022
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Appropriating Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt’s ‘Oblique Strategies’ as a site of departure for this video sculpture, for each of the 10 iterations, cards were picked at random and used to produce a moving image of any length or content from the dilemma presented on the card. The title of the piece, alludes to and makes a direct reference to publication history attached to the Oblique Strategies series, compiled from its first publication date in 1975 right up to the present day. The spontaneous nature of this deck of cards and the work produced for this project is echoed in the construction of this video sculpture.
Installation view. Single channel film & sound installation. In collaboration with Gary Finnegan. Presented as part of the group show, ‘This Is Not A Test’ Master Graduate Residency Award, Static Complex, Liverpool.
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Installation view (detail)
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Video still (detail)
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Video still (detail from Collapsed Lung, by Cos Ahmet)
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Video still (detail from Collapsed Lung, by Cos Ahmet)
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Video still (detail from Peripheral (double vision), by Cos Ahmet)
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Video still (detail from Peripheral (double vision), by Cos Ahmet)
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Video still (detail from :erase / ::remove_, by Cos Ahmet)
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Video still (detail from :erase / ::remove_, by Cos Ahmet)
EH-pih-DER-mis, 2021
The publication Enzyme 2: Life Systems (2021) is the collaborative project by artists Jorgge Menna Barreto & Joélson Buggilla, as a periodical, that also functions as a durational artwork. Enzyme 1: page, table & earth (2020) launched at the Jan van Eyck Academie, in The Netherlands.
Thinking of the periodical as part of an intellectual set of works of digestion, the artists proposed a second issue as their project for the Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach & The Port, inviting curator, Sarah Kristin Happersberger, to join them as co-editor.
The artists, Cos Ahmet, Abbie Bradshaw, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Linda Jane James & Newton Harrison worked in collaboration on creating their own biome to this publication.
Skin Biome (detail) Printed image on translucent paper vellum. Collaboration with Jorgge Menna Barreto and Joélson Buggilla. Enzyme x Liverpool Biennial 2021
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Skin Biome (page detail). Printed image on translucent paper vellum
EH-pih-DER-mis, 2021
Skin Biome (page detail). Printed image on translucent paper vellum
EH-pih-DER-mis, 2021
Skin Biome (page detail). Printed image on translucent paper vellum
EH-pih-DER-mis, 2021
Skin Biome (page detail). Printed image on translucent paper vellum