I see you liking everything

source: boldtendencies

I see you liking everything is an installation of multicoloured forecourt bunting forming a giant mask structure strung between existing lampposts on the roof of the car park. Appearing both static and in constant flux, it’s strong physical presence is contradicted by a lightness of material which echo’s the surrounding environment, reflecting light and moving with the passing wind. The viewer can see through and move around the installation, which can be read as a boundary between the London horizon and the sky floor of the car park. Proctor has often used the mask as a recurring motif within her practice, referencing the outlaw, the superhero and the potential for something to be more (or less) than what it seems. Here the mask motif acts as a kind of left over stage prop possibly from a stunt show or as a flag-like emblem, laying claim to a space or territory.

Car Drawing is both a performance and installation, during the performance a car turns in tight circles over and over leaving behind it a trail of rubber tyre marks melted on to the surface of the tarmac, that will remain for the duration of the exhibition. During the performance the act of turning both references a repetitious act that often appears in Proctor’s work but also perhaps a rebellious act of a young driver or even the showmanship of a stunt driver, an act of skill but also of abandonment and recklessness. The left over marks have almost no significant physical form, but hold a strong spatial/visual presence with in the space of the car park that highlights the lack of a present performer. Using the car park as a stage or arena the rubber marks become a choreographic note or a symbol of something has past and a trace of a particular moment in time.

Both I see you liking everything and Car drawing exist somewhere between the permanent and the ephemeral and the invisible becoming visible and play with the idea of the previous function of the Bold Tendencies exhibition space.

Ruth Proctor lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal college of Art in 2005 and has shown extensively in the UK and Internationally. Recent shows include Falling Backwards, 2013, a Solo presentation at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery and Garden of Reason at Ham House, Richmond-upon-Thames. Her work is currently included in AB at the Nomas Foundation, Rome as well as Colección: adquisicións e incorporacións recentes at CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She is represented by Hollybush Gardens, London and Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin.
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source: contemporaryartsociety

“My work is made in response to a particular space and time, staging a performative moment in the gallery or space with sculptural objects, film and drawing. Fascinated by spectacle sports such as ice skating and gymnastics, the contemporary dance of Michael Clark and Merce Cunningham and the fantastic set pieces of Busby Berkley, my concern is with the staging of this spectacle and the build-up to the transitory performance that the audience experiences, as if trying to capture a fragile moment of awareness between this build-up and the event itself. I am interested in using repetition, rhythm and tableaux in my work as well as the idea of the double.

The objects I make are like performers in a modernist spectacle along with Drawings that are abstract visual scores for silent music, paintings that capture a fleeting moment and film that is edited rhythmically and visually that dances around space on continuous loops. My work is all integrated in to new forms, made from both new and used materials and found objects which have had another or previous use e.g. snooker table felt, juggling rings, necklaces, musical instruments and acetates used as proof mixes for master recordings of vinyl records. My source material for recent work includes a range of artists such as Lubiov Popova, Oskar Schlemmer and Francis Picabia as well as Russian Constructivist Theatre and films such as Jean Cocteau’s Orphee (1950) and Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946).” – Ruth Proctor
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source: gasworks

Ruth Proctor uses drawing, installation, film, video and performance to create compositions influenced by modernist and constructivist aesthetics. Her interest in modern choreography and choreographed sports is reflected in her own performances in which the costumes and props play with geometrical forms and coordinated simple movements.

During her residency at Lugar a Dudas, Proctor will research local forms of dance and the history of architecture in Colombia to expand the scope of her formal research to different contexts and exchange critical dialogues with artists living and working under different circumstances.

Ruth Proctor is an English artist born in 1980. Recent solo exhibitions are Stolen
Thunder,
 Norma
 Mangione
Gallery,
Turin
(2009); The
 stranger
 and
 the
 Savant,
Hollybush
Gardens, London
(2008); and Bowl me Over, Center, Berlin (2006). She has also taken part in Automatic, Auto Italia,
London and
 Pallas
Contemporary
Projects, Dublin (2009); 100
years 100
 artists
 100
 works,
 London
 Underground
 Centenary
 Exhibition, London (2008); and 
Showtime, Gasworks, London (2008).