Intelligence: New British Art 2000
6 July - 24 September 2000
Darren and Darren 2000
Monika 2000
Sotiris 2000
City Film 2000
Courtesy the artist
Hilary Lloyd

Born: Yorkshire, 1964

Hilary Lloyd's work evolves from the relationships she forms with strangers, whom she invites to perform before the camera. Often unedited, her videos depend on the willingness of her subjects to collaborate. Lloyd has been drawn to people engaged in urban subcultures, such as skateboarders and night-clubbers. She is fascinated by the blurred distinctions between leisure and work, and by the different speeds at which we experience urban life.

In three of the works assembled here the artist's collaborators are seen carrying out various tasks in what appears to be the same newly finished building: two men move through each other's legs; a woman repeatedly builds a house of cards; a man lies languorously on the floor tearing magazines, which gradually fill the space around him. The varied pace of their movements and activities establishes a rhythm between the works, while the echoing space creates a distinctive yet unifying soundtrack.


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