Preview: LINA HERMSDORF - STATE 0

For her first institutional show in the UK, Lina Hermsdorf presents an architectural transformation of Flat Time House with an immersive sound installation throughout John Latham’s studio home. For this new commission, Hermsdorf uses large sheets of reinforced glass to divide the rooms of Flat Time House creating different sound spaces in which viewers may find they experience a temporal dissonance. The exhibition environment is used as a time-based medium with the viewer at the centre of a series of non-linear scripted narratives.

In State 0, Hermsdorf continues her exploration of how power structures, technology and biological structures interact with one another. Hermsdorf’s work explores the entanglement of the physicality and semiotics of bodies, regularly incorporating the biographical data from her performers into her sound narratives and performances. By spending an extended period researching at Flat Time House, she also integrates aspects of the ‘Living Sculpture’ into the work. Latham’s X-ray prints of from his 1970 placement at Clare Hall Hospital will be included as she plays with FTHo’s duel function as a domestic and institutional space.

Supported by the Elephant Trust and Cockayne - Grants for the Arts and the London Community Foundation