The work of the British visual artist Eva Gold, which spans various media from sculpture to drawing to moving image, is united by her undeniable eye for the cinematic, with her knowingly fetishistic use of materials like bone, steel, carved soap, leather, and vulcanized rubber suggesting an oblique or hidden narrative behind every installation. She applies a keenly directorial approach to her own imagined scenes, focusing on abstracted details to provoke the viewer into wondering what is happening beyond the frame, and sometimes using this deliberate elision of the wider picture to suggest illicitness, uncanniness, or the possibility of an unknown threat. Gold also incorporates found items that arrive with their own inbuilt histories, and plays with sensory elements like scent. Several pieces suggest bodies-as-parts: either dismantled, or present only in the ghostly shapes of hanging clothes. Power, violence, and the volatile nexus between both of these major forces per existence under the constraints of capitalism recur as potent themes, as do references to America—a place whose culture, in addition to being a locus for cinema, often presents us with amplified examples of this particular dynamic tension.
b. 1994, Manchester
Lives and works in London, UK
BA Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths, London
PGDip, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Shadow Lands, Silke Lindner, New York, US
City of Rooms (part one) (with Louise Bourgeois), Rose Easton, London, UK
City of Rooms (part two), Rose Easton at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Slow Dance, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin
The Last Cowboys, Ginny on Frederick, London
Lock Up International (with Elisabeth Molin), Brussels
Perv City, Parrhesiades / Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London
Die Wohnung (The Dwelling) (with Madeleine Pledge), SET Project Space, London
Let me look at you, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
Room to Crawl (with Lewis Hammond), Becky’s, London
A Bead of Sweat, Stilled, Lily Brooke, London
Air de repos (Breathwork), Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
SL x RE, Silke Lindner, New York
Channel, curated by Figure Figure, CACN - Centre d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, FR
The Living House, Van Gogh House, London
Stilled Images, Tube Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
Ideal Shapes of Disappearing, Silke Lindner, New York
Not before it has forgotten you, curated by Caroline Drevait & Estelle Marois, Nicoletti, London & The Pole Gallery, Paris
SEX, Rose Easton, London
Corps, MAMOTH, London
Sets & Scenarios, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Barely Furtive Pleasures, Nir Altman, Munich
General Meeting, Freehouse, London
Battery Horizons, Hockney Galleries, London
Minimum III, Gesso Art Space, Vienna
Bearing Liability, Strange Cargo, Folkestone Triennial
Addams Outtakes, Roaming Projects, London
SLAB, A.P.T Gallery, London
Rupert Residency, Lithuania
Fluxus Art Projects
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice
Eaton Fund, Artist’s Grant
André Dunoyer de Segonzac Travel Prize
Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award
Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award
The Hatley Residency, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
The Maccabeans Prize
Red Mansion Award, Residency in Beijing, China
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo
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