source: artspace
Adam Chodzko’s work weaves new relationships between our value and belief systems, exploring their effect on our communal and private spaces through the documents and fictions that control, describe and guide them. Working directly with the networks of people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology, Chodzko focuses on the relational politics of culture’s edges, endings, displacements, transitions and disappearances through a provocative looking in the ‘wrong’ places”–a search for knowledge through instability. Chodzko operates in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer. Intimate collections and ephemeral communities are frequently generated through his works; assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children “murdered” in a Pasolini film; a god look-alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; and a London gallery’s archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital, to list a few.

He has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions including solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives, Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, as well as group exhibitions at Tate Britain in London, Istanbul Biennial, Venice Biennale, Deste Foundation in Athens, Raven Row in London, and PS1 in New York.
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source: fabricaorguk
Adam Chodzko, one of Britain’s leading artists whose previous works have included The God Look-alike Contest, and Nightvision – an investigation into how heaven should be lit, will be exhibiting Plan for a Spell an ambitious new video installation at Fabrica,in Brighton.

Adam Chodzko’s work is an evolving question about where our imaginations converge culturally and how we attempt to articulate our imaginations socially. Working with video, photography, installation and drawing, he often uses the familiar activity of the ‘search’ and the phenomenon of the ‘meeting’ to suggest other ways in which our culture could exist. Chodzko has exhibited extensively internationally, and in the UK.

Chodzko assumes the role of the director-magician and seems to position the viewer as code-breaker – Polly Staple, Meetings from catalogue FVU.

Chodzko has assembled a compendium of rural arcane: tar barrelling from Devon, the Burry Man from Scotland, and from Cumbria a host of sequences including wicker weaving, wind turbines, a demolition derby, pyres of slaughtered cattle cadavers (infected by the foot and mouth outbreak) and a huge scrum of men that lurches, scatters and regroups as it careers up hill and down dale – Chris Darke, Dust Wrangling from catalogue FVU.

Based in the UK Adam Chodzko has exhibited extensively internationally, including the Venice Biennale and in ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy, London.
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source: vasa-project
Adam Chodzko’s (1965, London, UK) work weaves new relationships between our value and belief systems, exploring their effect on our communal and private spaces through the documents and fictions that control, describe and guide them. Working directly with the networks of people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology, Chodzko focuses on the relational politics of culture’s edges, endings, displacements, transitions and disappearances through a provocative looking in the ‘wrong’ places” – a search for knowledge through instability. Chodzko operates in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer. He has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions including: Tate, St Ives; Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (MAMBo); Istanbul Biennale, Venice Biennale; Deste Foundation, Athens; PS1, NY; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.