Place:
Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería, Pabellón 1
Balustrade, 2010
Tris Vonna-Michell's practice often features slide narrations and
recorded speech acts, excerpted and edited from his ongoing performances.
In Pavilion 1, Vonna-Michell uses two interconnected
spaces: a former municipal office, which has been modified as part
of a new installation and the adjoining space, which is occupied by
a site-specific slide projection, synchronised to a recorded, spoken
narrative.
Tris Vonna-Michell
1982, Southend-on-Sea. Lives and works between Stockholm and London. Tris Vonna-Michell obtained a BA in Photography from the Glasgow school of Art, Scotland, in 2005, and continued his studies at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until 2007. He has had solo exhibitions at Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris (2009), X Initiative, New York (2009), Kunsthalle Zürich, (2008 and 2009), GAMeC, Bergamo (2009), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2007), Cubitt, London (2007), Braunschweig Kunstverein Cuboid (2007), and Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2006). He has also performed and participated in group exhibitions worldwide, including at Creative time, New York; the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London; The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York; and MUDAM, Luxembourg (all 2009), as well as the Yokohama Triennial and the 5th Berlin Biennial (both 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the Bâloise Art Prize, the Ars Viva Prize, and a IASPIS Residency in Stockholm.
