Jenny Baines
Jenny Baines
Untitled, Victoria Park
When making her films Jenny performs repetitive actions for the camera, documenting herself carrying out apparently futile yet defiant physical feats. These actions can seem like a romantic response to, or an urge to escape from the space in which they are performed. The works are process based, using the limitations of the equipment or her physical endurance as a basis and frame in which to be created. The repetitively performed action is often absurd or pointless. In the film ‘Untitled, Victoria Park’ I attempt to climb a lamppost before the wind up mechanism of the 16mm Bolex camera runs down, which is never possible as the film cuts before I can achieve this. The result becomes an absurd attempt to achieve a pointless task.
Bio
Jenny Baines b.1974, lives and works in London. Slade School of Fine Art MFA in 2006.
She has shown work in the Istanbul Biennial (2007) and exhibited outside the UK in New York, Warsaw, Berlin, Bulgaria and Macedonia. She has been selected as an Artist in Residence for Platform, Finland in 2010.
