‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: An installation by Frederic Pradeau.

Private View 23rd November 6-9pm
Exhibition open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Closes 23rd December 2006.

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is a new interactive installation by Paris based artist Frederic Pradeau which has been commissioned by Static Gallery and curated by John Byrne. The work itself is a large conveyor belt that carries red bricks to a printer, where they are printed with the lyrics to ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, before they are carried off upwards and dropped in a pile at the end of the installation.
For this to happen, the installation has to be ‘triggered’ by gallery viewers singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ into a microphone. Pradeau created the piece in response to a visit to Liverpool. According to Pradeau “I tried to collect several constituents of Liverpool’s identity from my first impressions. It was like a stocktaking of my memory: docks, buildings, stadium, music, sound, exhibitions, and chaotic areas…....maybe I had to try to turn Liverpool between a dream and a nightmare.”

To date, the work of Frederic Pradeau has often combined wit, irony and a dark sense of humour with the production of highly accomplished installations, performances and objects. From making ‘stills’ which produce pure alcohol from Coca-Cola, to rugs made out of dust and the blindfolded construction of IKEA furniture, Pardeau’s oeuvre points towards the banality and frequent futility of contemporary everyday life.

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