Caitlin Griffiths
"I want something from you. I want to know where you are, how you got there, who you think you are and who you’d like to be. I collect pieces of people and build myself among them.” I am a visual artist working in video, photography, text and performance.
For a number of years my existing practice of video, text and performance has been rooted in the idea of identity being created through a process of exchange. This is both through our interaction with other people (external exchange) and our recalled experiences and memories (internal exchange). I have worked in partnership with neuroscientists and psychologists as well as actors, clairvoyants and those who experience alter identities, in order to make sense of how our mental narratives and internal voices create us, while at the same time being created by us. This has previously manifested in my video and performance works in which I exchange and reconfigure voices (2 into 1 2009; Imago 2011; Exchange 2013; Love Letters 2015; What is Socrates Phone Number? 2016).
My recent interest in Quantum Physics has come via the identity politics of Judith Butler to Karen Barad and then to Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr. Starting from Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation which theorized that reality is only summoned into existence through the act of looking at it, I aim to draw parallels between observation theory and identity formation.
Artwork
Still life (after Schrödinger), Digital Photograph, 2019-2020
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real, Digital Photograph, 2019
Alter / Altar, Digital Photograph, 2019
Art Histories, Text on paper, 2007 - present (on-going), Various
A million tiny failures, Acrylic and ink on postcard, 2011, £300 (original) £25 (edition)
2 into 1 (After Gillian Wearing), Digital Video , 2009
Imago, Digital Video, 2011
Exchange, Digital Video , 2013
Love in Red and Blue , Digital video , 2018
What is Socrates' phone number? , 1-1 performance , 2016
Love Letters (II), Digital Video , 2015
Envy & Narcissus , Digital Photograph, 2018, £400
Projects and exhibitions
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At Our Still Lives Posed11/10/2019 — 13/10/2019 PAPER will once again take part in The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair again this year. The Manchester Contemporary takes a uniquely artist-focused approach, inviting the most exciting international and UK galleries to participate. With careful selection and bold curatorial vision, The Manchester Contemporary showcases the strength of the... [Read more] |
Manchester Contemporary / PAPER, manchester | Details |
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Greater Manchester Art Prize06/06/2019 — 05/07/2019 Shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Art Prize 2019. The exhibition runs from Thursday 6th June 2019 to Friday 5th July 2019, at Bolton Museum & Art Gallery. |
Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, Bolton, Greater Manchester | Details |
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real22/02/2019 — 24/02/2019 Caitlin Griffiths presents new photographic work-in-progress made following her residency to the Niels Bohr archive in Copenhagen. Starting from Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation which theorized that reality is only summoned into existence through the act of looking at it, Griffiths’ aims to draw parallels between observation theory... [Read more] |
Paradise Works, Salford | Details |
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While we belong to ourselves a little bit of us belongs to everyone (solo exhibition)15/02/2018 — 15/04/2018 Following a period of research with a diverse group of experts, including a clairvoyant, a writer, an impressionist, a cognitive anthropologist, a community psychologist, a neuroscientist and a tulpamancer, artist Caitlin Griffiths presents her new exhibition: While we belong to ourselves, a little bit of us belongs to everyone. Drawing from... [Read more] |
Swiss Cottage Gallery, London | Details |
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Band Ties (Group show)01/09/2012 — 30/09/2012 Cross-overs, connections, ties and links can expose themselves at random moments. Relationships can be born out of incidental meetings. The curators of the exhibition Band / Ties, Charlie Levine (Birmingham, UK) and Suvi Lehtinen (Stockholm, Sweden) met over a dinner during the summer in Berlin, through a mutual friend and curatorial partner... [Read more] |
WIP Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden | Details |
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In to view (solo exhibition)01/09/2011 — 30/09/2011 For Aedas Presents Birmingham based artist, Caitlin Griffiths, debuted a new film and several Aedas specific text pieces. Continuing within her past work theme of identity and relationship, Griffiths' new work looks into perhaps the closest relationship of all - the relationship between father and daughter. In addition, Griffiths cuckooed... [Read more] |
Aedas presents, Birmingham, UK | Details |
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Treasure Seekers VIII01/09/2009 — 26/09/2018 Treasure Seekers VIII TEXT BY CHARLIE LEVINE Treasure Seekers VIII sees Charlie Levine and Kate Pennington-Wilson present the second of a two part series of curated shows in collaboration with Birmingham School of Art and Design Archives. This exhibition presents six new works by Caitlin Griffiths, all of which are responsive to the... [Read more] |
Margaret Street, School of Art and Design, 2009, Birmingham | Details |