Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
15th May 1998 - 7th June 1998
Mary Lou Pavlovic's work originated from a recurring disturbing dream from childhood which concerned the death of her brother. The resultant video inhabited a nether world of turbulent passions which ranged from adulation to jealousy: and hinted at strange tensions bubbling beneath the surface of sibling relationships. An excellent remedy for anyone who has ever had to suffer the indignity of being overshadowed by a close relation.
Mary Anne Francis exhibited a series of photographs of house materials: "She sometimes walks past the house where she used to live…Searching for familiar features, and overlooking cruel changes, she toys with the idea of asking the present owners to let her look around the place she regards as hers… She argues to herself that memory gives one shares in a property..(yet) she also knows that much could destroy her fragile attempt to restore that edifice. What she forgets, however, is that her memory, too, is subject to the ravages of time." Mary Anne Francis.
Both artists met as postgraduate Fine Art students at Goldsmiths in 1996. Mary Anne has exhibited with Erick Franck Fine Art in "Art 98", London. She is a lecturer in Art at Brunel University, has taught Goldsmiths College on the Fine Art M.A and has also written for "Untitled". Mary Lou Pavlovic presented a video installation in International Photoszene" in Cologne both in '97 and '98. She has exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne in Australia. She teaches as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Arts course at the University of Wales in Cardiff.
