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GEORGIE NETTELL

THE VIVID PRESENT

November 3 – December 15, 2016 The Earth's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Everyone is killed except for the main characters, who survive relatively unscathed and are then freed from the prior constraints of civilization. The main charecters view the apparently shared world as an illusion of the mind, and accept the imagined and dreamed realms as of equal validity to the apparently shared world. The main charecters spend 47% of their waking time on average daydreaming, but since remembering and imagining sends blood to identical parts of the brain, their imagined worlds begin to echo elements of the collapsed society. The main charecters read this as a warning. Life can be beautiful in super slow motion, 2019 Video on hanging screens 2:35, silent Natural Rewards, 2019 Video on desk 10:14, sound Passive active interactive

1 Escaping is just engaging on a different platform 3 This is the interface, we just navigate it 6 Keeping up is just the story you choose to live with 10 The future is generated by the images we make of it Talking Tiles, voice recordings 4” X 4” each Georgie Nettell is based in London. Recent exhibitions include: Kunstbunker Nürnberg, Marquise, Lisbon, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, Various Others with Project Native Informant at Beach Office, Berlin and The Vitalist Economy of Painting, curated by Isabelle Graw, Galerie Neu, Berlin.

Installation views

Individual works

Georgie Nettell Natural Rewards, 2019

HD Video

RT: 10 minutes 12 seconds

1/3 + 1AP

GN/V 2/1

Georgie Nettell Life Can be Beautiful in Super Slow Motion, 2019

HD video playing on multiple monitors

RT: 9 minutes 56 seconds ; dimensions variable

1/3 + 1AP

GN/I 1/1

Georgie Nettell 1 Escaping is just engaging on a different platform, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 12/1

Georgie Nettell 2 History is a set of stories, each person must choose

between them, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 13/1

Georgie Nettell 3 This is the interface, we just navigate it, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 14/1

Georgie Nettell 4 Reality is just somebody elses tired explanation, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 15/1

Georgie Nettell 5 There is no correct answer only narrative, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 16/1

Georgie Nettell 6 Keeping up is just the story you choose to live with,

2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 17/1

Georgie Nettell 7 Media creates the world it claims to merely show us,

2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 18/1

Georgie Nettell 8 Reality is made up of oppressive structures, not individual fantasies, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 19/1

Georgie Nettell 9 There is no genre that is not an episode in the story oflife, 2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 20/1

Georgie Nettell 10 The future is generated by the images we make of it,2019

Speaking tile with recorded file

10.16 x 10.16 cm ; 4 x 4 in

1/3 + 1AP

GN/S 21/1