'Selective Memory' is a concept-driven project. It is concerned with the notion of artistic behaviour and the conditions and environments within and by which Alex Pollard, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan and Cathy Wilkes have configured their individualistic practices.
Central to the selection of the three artistic practices is the criteria by which they continuously cultivate their practices as self-determined loci that provide them with the resources to consistently research, develop, edit, and produce art works and projects.
The negotiation with the viewer is inherent to the works issued by these artists. Their individual works require the viewer to recognise that what they are encountering is works that arise from what could be described as a 'life-long' path of research and production or continuous practice, rather than an illustration of a succession of completed bodies of work.
The project-based dynamic of ´Selective Memory´ responds to these practices and the circumstances from which they develop. 'Selective Memory' has been developed in three phases; the exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works in Venice, a further exhibition of more works by the artists at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art from 7 December 2005 to 5 March 2006 and a third phase to be developed in 2006.
