ONLINE EXHIBITION Unstilled Life: Artist Animations 1980 – 2020 Edwina Ashton | Rä Di Martino | George Eksts | Oona Grimes | Andy Holden | Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley | Erkka Nissinen | Jacco Olivier | Zbigniew Rybczynski | Jennet Thomas with Paul Tarragó | Markus Vater | Run Wrake | Madalina Zaharia

21 July – 3 September 2020

Curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Emma Cousin, with Teresa Grimes

Animation is an increasingly vibrant medium for artists, and enlivens a virtual platform. In Unstilled Life, Tintype in collaboration with Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam and blinkvideo in Hamburg, presents 13 films in a space that is activated, immediate and intimate – into people’s phones, screens and living rooms – even at a time of distancing. More fundamentally, digitalisation, post-production and simulation have thoroughly undermined the indexical relationship of film to its origin in time, as a succession of moments preserved. Animation might be seen as more honest. There’s no disguising its source in imagination. Artists can create worlds which stem not from representation, but from freely extending their particular languages and concerns.

Edwina Ashton

Mr Panz at Lake Leman, 2010

Courtesy the artist and Tintype, London, and with thanks to Animate Projects and to Drawing Room, London. 6 mins

Rä di Martion

Poor, Poor Jerry, 2017

Courtesy of the artist, Copperfield, London & Snaporazverein, CH. 6.50 mins

George Eksts

Rehearsal, 2017

Courtesy the artist and Tintype, London. 7.34 mins

Oona Grimes

murd : pagina quattro, 2020

Courtesy of the artist and Danielle Arnaud gallery, London. 2.28 mins

Andy Holden

Wouldn't Dream of It, 2017

Courtesy of the artist. 8.35 mins

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley

This Is Offal, 2019

Courtesy of the artists and Pilar Corrias, London. 13 mins

Erkka Nissinen

What Is Community, 2016

Courtesy of the artist and Ellen de Bruijne Projects. 13 mins

Jacco Olivier

Terra Incognito, 2019

Courtesy of the artist and Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, 4.I0mins

Zbigniew Rybcznski

Tango, 1981

Courtesy of the artist, 8 mins

Jennet Thomas with Paul Tarragó

A Tale I Know Nothing About, 2016

Courtesy of the artists and Tintype, London, 10 mins

Markus Vater

Worlds Don't Come Easy, 2020

Courtesy of the artist. 10 minutes

Run Wrake

Rabbit, 2005

Courtesy of the artist's estate and Lisa Wrake

Madalina Zaharia

The Six Basic Rules of (un)Tidying, 2020

Courtesy of the artist and Tintype, London. 2.19 mins