Corin Sworn, ‘How Desires Change’ (detail) (2013). Photo: Ruth Clark.
Corin Sworn creates installations that explore the ways objects can circulate stories and histories. Often combining images with spoken narrative, her work examines the cultural and personal significance attributed to things and how they in turn narrate us as social subjects.
Corin Sworn, ‘Incidents in Circulations’ (2014). C-type print, glass of water, shelf. Photo: Ruth Clark.
Sworn's film ‘The Foxes’ stems from a re-discovered collection of slides taken in Peru by the artist’s father in the 1970s, which she has used to explore aspects of imaging, memory, place and oral history.
Project Details
For GENERATION, The Common Guild presented consecutive solo exhibitions by Hayley Tompkins, Corin Sworn and Duncan Campbell. These were the three artists presented by The Common Guild for the exhibition Scotland + Venice 2013, a Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
Read the Commentary by Melanie Letore –
A three-part publication with texts by Daniel Jewsbury, Aaron Peck, Joe Scotland and Gavin Smith.
Engagement
The Common Guild works with a range of groups on a programme of workshops that explore ideas related to each exhibition. This programme was coordinated by Margaret McCormick and workshops are led by ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’ (Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison).
