ADAM CHODZKO
The Pickers
Film
Single Screen Video with Sound
17 minutes 52 seconds
VENUE
6. Coker Court, East Coker
Fri 23 – Sat 24 May, 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May, 10am – 4pm
The Pickers shows a group of young Romanian migrant workers at a strawberry farm in Kent. They alternate their intensive strawberry picking labour with another form of labour, the editing and mediation of a 20th century film archive collected by the artist, showing the activities of migrant hop pickers from London. Differences are blurred as to where and when events are set, the identity of an archive and its mediation, and who ultimately is holding the knowledge and therefore the power.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Chodzko is a visual artist based in Whitstable, Kent. His work explores the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour by investigating the space of consciousness between how we are and what we might be. Working across media, from video installation to subtle interventions, with a practice that is situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm, his work invents possibilities for collective imagination, wondering how we might perceive better in order to create better connections with others.
Recent exhibitions include; The Botanical Mind, Camden Art Centre, (2020); Towner International, Towner Eastbourne, (2020); Being Human, Wellcome Collection (2019-’30); Televistas, More Than Ponies (2020); Die Sonne does not shine like S?on?ce, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland (2020). International solo exhibitions include: Because…,Tate Britain (2013); You’ll See, this Time it’ll be Different, The Benaki Museum, Athens (2013).