Breda Beban: I can't make you love me
Breda Beban: I can't make you love me
I CAN’T MAKE YOU LOVE ME is an exhibition of new work by adopted British artist, Breda Beban. In using film, video and photography to enact deeply personal narratives, it shares many of the characteristics of Beban’s recent solo exhibition, STILL (shown at Site Gallery, Sheffield in 2000). Both exhibit a restless tension between ‘Balkan’ and ‘British’ cultural identity. However, whilst STILL centred on feelings of loss in relation to death, I CAN’T MAKE YOU LOVE ME examines contradiction in relation to love.
The exhibition revolves around a two-screen projection which combines tracking shots of a dialogue between Beban and her British former lover with haunting images (shot by internationally acclaimed cinematographer Robby Müller) of Beban and a Romany band drifting on a raft along the Danube in Belgrade, while performing the walk of the three chairs. The juxtaposition of stills of abandoned beds, views through windows and the sound of a traditional Balkan song Who Doesn’t Know How to Suffer Doesn’t Know How to Love, function to emphasise the inconsistency and fragility of love
video, exhibition, curated, projection
Foster, Stephen
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Bode, Steven
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Foster, Stephen
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Bode, Steven
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Foster, Stephen and Bode, Steven
(2003)
Breda Beban: I can't make you love me.
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Abstract
I CAN’T MAKE YOU LOVE ME is an exhibition of new work by adopted British artist, Breda Beban. In using film, video and photography to enact deeply personal narratives, it shares many of the characteristics of Beban’s recent solo exhibition, STILL (shown at Site Gallery, Sheffield in 2000). Both exhibit a restless tension between ‘Balkan’ and ‘British’ cultural identity. However, whilst STILL centred on feelings of loss in relation to death, I CAN’T MAKE YOU LOVE ME examines contradiction in relation to love.
The exhibition revolves around a two-screen projection which combines tracking shots of a dialogue between Beban and her British former lover with haunting images (shot by internationally acclaimed cinematographer Robby Müller) of Beban and a Romany band drifting on a raft along the Danube in Belgrade, while performing the walk of the three chairs. The juxtaposition of stills of abandoned beds, views through windows and the sound of a traditional Balkan song Who Doesn’t Know How to Suffer Doesn’t Know How to Love, function to emphasise the inconsistency and fragility of love
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Accepted/In Press date: 2003
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Curated with Steven Bode.
Collaboration with Film & Video Umbrella.
Toured to Newlyn Art Gallery & Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Commissioned work purchased by Tate Modern, London.
Keywords:
video, exhibition, curated, projection
Organisations:
Faculty of Humanities, Professional Services
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Local EPrints ID: 355969
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/355969
PURE UUID: db3fd10e-1b97-4dfd-a4b1-d2e4d0483102
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Date deposited: 06 Dec 2013 16:28
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 02:46
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Curator of an exhibition:
Stephen Foster
Curator of an exhibition:
Steven Bode
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