GALLERY GUIDE Dryden Goodwin: Alongside 29 February - 5 April QUAD Gallery Two
Dryden Goodwin’s film Alongside is an inquiry into proximity and empathy, explored through close observation of the working life of a social care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three vulnerable young men with severe physical disabilities or autism. The film focuses on details and points of contact between the care worker and the young men, as he navigates and enables them to access the world beyond the daycare centre.
Alongside reflects on the care worker’s profound responsibility and drive, as he finds ways to decode the needs of the young men to understand their motivations and anxieties. This is mirrored in Goodwin’s process of observation, deciphering and translating this most intimate and delicate of jobs into a sensory study, rendered through his camera lens, pencil drawings and layered soundtrack. For the exhibition, accompanying the 24-minute film, are the original drawings created by Goodwin during the making of the film. Co-curated by Gary Thomas and Peter Bonnell. Co-commissioned by QUAD and Animate Projects as part of the WORK Project. Part of Co-Lab - a season taking place in QUAD Gallery every two years that aims to highlight collaborative working. With thanks to: Paul Johnstone, Jack Johnstone, David Thompson, Rob Fantom, Jane Hardstaff, Paul Calderwood and Community Links, Derby. Filmed in Derby.
Dryden Goodwin Biography:
Dryden Goodwin’s practice incorporates drawing, filmmaking, photography, printmaking, projects in public space, projects on-line and soundtracks. Goodwin’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and the Venice Biennale. His solo shows include ’Un-Earth’ OCAT Museum, Xian, China (2018); ‘Unseen: The Lives of Looking’ Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich, London (2015); ‘Skill’, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) (2015); ’Cast’ the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden (2009) and The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2008). Goodwin’s work in public collections includes the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, USA, Tate Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Arts Council Collection and Science Museum. His projects in public space include, ’Those Who Seek My Help’ permanent installation at New Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); ’Breathe’ commissioned by Invisible Dust, projected at night opposite the Houses of Parliament (2012); ‘Linear’ commissioned by Art on the Underground (2010-12). His short films have been broadcast on Channel 4, MTV, RAI and SWR and shown in many international festivals since 1995. Festival screenings of his first feature-length film ‘Unseen: The Lives of Looking’ include nominations in the International Documentary Feature competition for Cinematography at ’Camerimage, International Film Festival’ (2016), Bydgoszcz, Poland and for the DOX:Award Documentary Feature competition at ’CPH:DOX’ (2015), Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where he has taught since 1997. www.drydengoodwin.com
Dryden Goodwin Alongside 2019, 24 minutes The film begins on the hour and half past the hour throughout the day.
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