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Tahi Moore: Kim Wilde’s Heart of Darkness
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, U.K.
26 August —
11 November 2017
‘Kim Wilde’s Heart of Darkness’ is the first UK exhibition of New Zealand-based artist Tahi Moore. The exhibition includes over fifteen new video works which have been created through a partnership with the Royal Over-Seas League, an organisation which champions international collaboration, and Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland, where Moore completed a four week residency in late 2016. Moore's title refers to Kim Wilde’s 1981 song ‘Cambodia’ – both a heart breaking story of an Air Force wife who loses her husband in the Vietnam War and typical synthy 80s Top of the Pops tune.
Moore’s video works retain a formal and seductive beauty. Images of mountains, domestic interiors of holiday homes, lights of synthesizers or the lapping of the sea carry a resonance and act like visual triggers. The viewer is invited to piece clues together and work out the puzzle to find some kind of meaning with images full of suggested connections, necessary false starts and potential resolutions.
‘Kim Wilde’s Heart of Darkness’ is the first UK exhibition of New Zealand-based artist Tahi Moore. The exhibition includes over fifteen new video works which have been created through a partnership with the Royal Over-Seas League, an organisation which champions international collaboration, and Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland, where Moore completed a four week residency in late 2016. Moore's title refers to Kim Wilde’s 1981 song ‘Cambodia’ – both a heart breaking story of an Air Force wife who loses her husband in the Vietnam War and typical synthy 80s Top of the Pops tune.
Moore’s video works retain a formal and seductive beauty. Images of mountains, domestic interiors of holiday homes, lights of synthesizers or the lapping of the sea carry a resonance and act like visual triggers. The viewer is invited to piece clues together and work out the puzzle to find some kind of meaning with images full of suggested connections, necessary false starts and potential resolutions.