Working directly with the people and places that surround him, collectively imagining alternative relationships, Chodzko focuses on culture’s edges, endings and disappearances, creating assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children ‘murdered’ in a Pasolini film; a god look-alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; a London gallery’s archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital; and most recently the multi-faceted ‘Design for a Carnival,’ a ritual event for the future.
Adam Chodzko is a British artist based in Whitstable. Recent solo exhibitions include Els Hanappe Underground, Athens and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin. Recent projects include Settlement (a video and legal contract), commissioned by Contemporary Art Society, where Chodzko bought a square foot of land in the centre of London and gave it as a gift to a stranger. Others include a major project to make a dress for a wind turbine, in collaboration with fashion designer, Jonathon Saunders (and organised by General Public Agency), as well as participation in shows at PS1, and the Kunstmuseum Luzerne.
