PRESS RELEASE
Rania Rangou:
Noble lies – Tracey Snelling:Nothing
3 November – 1 December 2012
In parallel with the events of the 53rd Thessaloniki Film Festival
TinT gallery is happy to present the exhibition entitled Rania Rangou: Noble lies
Tracey Snelling:Nothing
Noble lies –
Is the future perhaps already written as a repetition of the past? Is there actually a 'new', or is there the 'old' in a new version? Ultimately might the future be part of a series of 'noble and brave lies?' Possibly, the unexpected is also a brave falsehood.
How unexpectedcan
the 'unexpected' be? In her new solo exhibition, which includes paintings,
Rania Rangou:
collages and processed images, Rania Ragou converses with the past, present and future by detecting the common ground between them. By creating a 'room where the unconscious and the conscious coexist', elements surface, inconsistencies, scenarios, fears and battles that have to do with violent change, the repetition of things and the inevitable stillness. Noble or brave lies about the ways of history, the flow and sequence of events, and what is taking place each moment, changing the shared perception of reality.
THANOS STATHOPOULOS Athens, September 2012
Rania Rangou was born in Athens, Greece in 1970. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece (1989-1994) and at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain (1994-1995). For two consecutive years (1998-1999), she studied Video Art and Music & Sound Techniques at the School of Visual Arts in New York, U.S.A. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works are to be found in private and public collections, including the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
Tracey Snelling:Nothing
Tracey Snelling was born in 1970 in Oakland, California. She studied physical science at San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California and photography at the Art Studio University of New Mexico, in Albourquerque. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and in Greece and has performed installations in the United States, Holland and the UK. Tracey Snelling's works can be found in museum collections in the United States.
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Nothing tells the story of a young woman named
Jane. She has resigned herself to a life with a man
that she doesn't love and a dead-end job as a
maid
in
a
small
rundown
motel.
Her one form of escape is to try on the lives of the
guests that are staying in the rooms she cleans.
As Jane reluctantly cleans while dabbling in her
role playing game, she comes face to face with her
own life, in a frightening and honest way.
Set in the heat-soaked town of Twentynine Palms,
the desert landscape becomes a character, and the
film rides the line between art and narrative.
Premiered at the San Francisco International Film
Festival 2012.
Other showings:
Naperville Independent Film Festival, Naperville, IL
(September 2012), Oakland Underground Film
Festival, Oakland, CA (September 2012), Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA (May-August 2012)
http://www.tintgallery.gr/past_works.asp?cateid=0&exid=87
