Factual Actual Performance Documentation 23

Florence Peake (1973 - )

Acrylic paint on holographic card

2022

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
    The Factual Actual Performance Documentation series is developed from Florence Peake’s performance Factual Actual at the National Gallery, London in 2021, which she expanded in 2023 at the city’s Southwark Park Gallery. In this performance she explored the collapse of the canon of Western painting. The images painted on these postcard-sized holographic papers are derived from photographic documentation of the live work, which asks questions about what performance can be and where it can go. The movement afforded by the glimpses of holographic paper when it interacts with the light, allows past iterations of the performance to take on a new life, extending the performing body even further beyond the temporal space of its original appearance. The work has us asking questions about what is material and physical and where the limitations of both lie.
  • About the artist
    Florence Peake was born in London. She gained a dance diploma from Lewisham College in 1994 and went on to an MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University (2009). She has since had a number of solo exhibitions and performances in Galleries including at Southwark Park Galleries in partnership with the Towner, Eastbourne and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023); at Rich Mix in for an event at the Barbican Centre; Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (both 2022); National Gallery, London; British Art Show 9 in Aberdeen, Wolverhampton and Manchester; PM/AM, London; Arsenic and Sudpol Theatres, Switzerland; Z20 Gallery, Rome; Somerset House, London (all 2021) and at the Venice Biennale (2019). Her work has also been performed and exhibited in numerous group exhibitions internationally since 2001.
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    Artist
    Florence Peake (1973 - )
    Title
    Factual Actual Performance Documentation 23
    Date
    2022
    Medium
    Acrylic paint on holographic card
    Dimensions
    height: 15cm; width: 10.7cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Richard Saltoun Gallery, September 2023
    Provenance
    Richard Saltoun Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 4 September 2023
    GAC number
    19199