Corin sworn biography
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Born in 1977 in London, United Kingdom, and raised in Canada, Corin Sworn lives and works in Glasgow. Sworn uses a range of media including drawing, sculpture, video and installation. Informed by her background in psychology and her on-going interest in social and cultural anthropology, Sworn’s research-based practice investigates the notion of individual agency from a number of different perspectives. Her works have focused on subjective accounts of modernist architecture, utopian experiments in social development – including the implementation of alternative pedagogical models – and fictional narratives of youths in a state of rebellion. Sworn’s pieces draw on subjects from the recent past in order to generate a conflicting sense of recognition and alterity. Beyond their naturalistic rendering and research-based content, there is often an abstract, incomplete or ambiguous dimension to her works intended to encourage viewers to develop their own narrative readings. Corin Sworn has an upcoming solo exhibition at La Giubba, Natalia Hug, Cologne, Germany (2015), Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2015), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), Vibrant Matter, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (201
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Corin Sworn
British-Canadian principal (born 1976)
Corin Sworn (born 1976) assay an principal who lives and frown in Glasgow.[1] Her 2012 installation pivotal film The Foxes was shown usage the English Pavilion insinuate the 2013 Venice Biennale.[2] Sworn was the independent of rendering fifth way of representation Max Deflower Art Prize.[1]
Education and prematurely career
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Work
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Corin Sworn : The Rag Papers
Chisenhale Gallery presents a newly commissioned work by Canadian, Glasgow based artist Corin Sworn. This will be Sworn’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date and comprises a film presented as part of an installation with synchronised lighting and sound.
The Rag Papers (2013) explores the nature of attention, reuse and appropriation. The film’s worried narrative shifts between the perspectives of three characters who interact with a series of objects set within carefully designed domestic interiors. The film uses point of view shots and cutaway sequences to suggest the roaming nature of each character’s attention and in turn, reveals transient spaces such as hotel rooms, sorting depots and markets.
Layering multiple subjective viewpoints, Sworn’s characters shift back and forth between modes of remembering, looking, processing and reading. Objects play a central role in the film, almost as characters in their own right; the mise en scene becoming as potent as the action of the protagonists or any suggested narrative.
In recent work, such as the performance lecture Roaming Charges (2011), and HDHB (2011), made in collaboration with Charlotte Prodger, Sworn has explored the global circulation of objects and images. She expands up