“The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Somebody Living”

Walter Hugo & Zoniel
Installation : 53 High Park Street Liverpool, L8 3UF
26th June – 26th July 2014

By Pippa Jane Wielgos

To run in advance of and concurrently with the Liverpool Biennial 26th June – 26th July, one of the distinctive artistic installations will feature a derelict shop window, which will in the evening open its shutters to host a vast water tank of 20 living jellyfish.

The psychedelic kinaesthetic watery display of the gelatinous free-swimming aquatic form marine animals, sponsored by London Gazelli Art House (London), “is intended to provoke a discordant presence within the anonymity of the derelict building and intrigue those in the surrounding area”.

Based on the concept that the “immediacy of art within the public realm has the potential to inspire”, the artists, Walter Hugo & Zoniel, whose works were nominated for the “Foam” Paul Hoff Prize in 2014, have relied on word of mouth within the community to generate interest in, and ownership of, the project.

As part of the site-specific window project in Liverpool, run by the Gazelli Art House (London) Azerbaijani Founder and Director Mila Askarova, a live-streaming a video of the Liverpool-based work in High Park Street (Liverpool) from within the jellyfish tank will be projected on to the gallery's window in Dover Street (London).

Using the frontage of the gallery as a screen, viewers will be able see through the tank into the streets of Toxteth – creating a “virtual corridor between the two cities”. Walter Hugo & Zoniel will also be displaying photographic works – surreal records of the project’s development.

Walter Hugo & Zoniel are a young London based Artist duo. Multi-disciplinary in their practice whose work is centred on utilising scientific process and pioneering the modern development of early photographic techniques.

Gazelli Art House opened its first permanent gallery space on Dover Street, London, in March 2012 after hosting conceptually interlinked off-site exhibitions across London in 2011. The gallery now concentrates on the development of its education programme. In October 2012, the gallery re-opened its original space in Baku, Azerbaijan where it held exhibitions with Azeri artists since 2003.

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Comment left by neill Murphy on 2nd June, 2014 at 16:11
looks an ace idea :-)

Comment left by Minnie Stacey on 3rd June, 2014 at 21:37
Hah! Bloomin' luminous stuff... Liverpool in the swim of a biennial #LOL s:poooooky