Art Space Portsmouth is pleased to welcome Josefina Posch the recipient of the Art Space Portsmouth International Residency 2010.
The three-month Art Space Portsmouth International Artist's Residency is aimed at emerging fine artists with some experience of professional practice who may have had limited exposure in the UK and whose work is engaged with contemporary debate within the international art world.

Josefina will be in residence until the end of November 2010. Please follow her journey here:


Wednesday 15 December 2010

The Logic of Basho < Here's Looking at You Kid > at Galleri Pictura, Sweden


The installation in Sweden varied a bit from the one at GASP in Portsmouth by the shape of the enclosure being a Pentagon, the Peepholes also being lined with white rabbit fur and that we added sets of headphones in the projection room in addition to having the sound played over speakers.

The exhibition at GallerPictura in Lund Sweden will be up until Jan 15th, 2011

To see more images from both exhibitions go to my home page at www.josefinaposch.com







The Portsmouth sculptures looked great in the Swedish UV light

The Projection of the Live streaming web cams from inside the Pentagon 

The Broadcasting Laptop with the peer-to-peer software application running


Thursday 9 December 2010

Installing at Galleri Pictura

Just a few days after I arrived back in Gothenburg, Sweden it was time to load up the pentagon structure I had stored at my fathers place in Bollebygd and drive down to install my exhibition at Galleri Pictura in Lund. The Vernissage or Opening Reception is tomorrow Friday the 10th of Dec from 6-8pm.

Loading the pentagon boards

Driving down to Lund on the Swedish winter roads
The landscape is changing even though Lund is only 3 hrs south
Galleri Pictura's Peter Gerdman & Sofia Landström
Galleri Pictura poster advertising my exhibition
The street of the gallery in Lund
The crate with my sculptures from Portsmouth arrived well in Sweden. Even the Basho Tattoo Logo Posters were intact but someone had opened up the Peephole that we had covered up with a piece of board. Seems everyone is a voyeur after all, but I already knew that.
The notorious crate from Art Space Portsmouth 

Installing the exhibition
The figures installed

Wednesday 8 December 2010

The Logic of Basho < Here's Looking at You Kid > at GASP

The entrance at GASP

The small side door leading into the exhibition space


The half hexagon enclosure


Through the Peephole

Inside the enclosure


The video projection of the live web streaming from inside the enclosure

All images by Katayoun Dowlatshahi











Tuesday 30 November 2010

Last day in Portsmouth and Images from Preview night


It is the last day of my three month residency and I'm on my way to Heathrow leaving for Sweden later today. The sculptures were shipped on Wednesday and I am crossing my fingers that they will arrive in Sweden on time since already on Monday I am going down to Lund to mount the installation at Gallri Pictura in Lund, stay tuned for more on that later.

I had a fantastic residency and extremely happy with how the whole project developed especially considering the residency was only for three months and I am looking forward to  streaming the live video back to Aspex Gallery on the 9th of December. 

Portrait by Katayoun Dowlatshahi


In the meantime here are some images from the Preview at GASP. Images of the actual  installation will follow soon.

Image by Gillian Hawkins


Image by Gillian Hawkins


Image by Gillian Hawkins

Image by Gillian Hawkins


Friday 19 November 2010

Exhibition Opening Day

At the moment we are broadcasting the video stream from the installation here at GASP to Hanare Project in Kyoto, Japan where it is almost 9 in the evening check it out on their blog here.

Image of the projected stream in Kyoto




















The preview here at GASP (Gallery at Art Space Portsmouth) is tonight from 6.30 - 8.30
and more information can be found at ASP web site here.

Thursday 18 November 2010

The Day Before the Exhibition Opens

Tomorrow Friday November 19th is the preview of my exhibition " The Logic of Basho < Here's Looking at You Kid > " and already at 11 am we are starting to broadcast with Hanare Projects in Japan. As always time seems to run faster as the opening of exhibitions gets closer and today was no exception.

Me fine tuning the sculptures
Neil Hardcastle cutting out his tattoo design logo
Photographer Malcolm Wells observing  

Friday 12 November 2010

Tattoo Design for the Exhibition

One of the things I noticed when I did the body-castings for the sculptures was that it seemed that every person from Portsmouth had one or more tattoos. This spurred discussions regarding the history of tattoos in Portsmouth and I found out that there will even be a Tattoo Convention here this spring. Even though I decided not to go as far as Katayoun suggested: that I should actually tattoo my sculptures I instead opted to incorporate a tattoo design element into the enclosure part of the installation. 

The tattoo, that is designed by Neil Hardcastle of  warehaus studio  specifically for my art project, contains the title of the exhibition and will replace the Adam and Eve Dürer silkscreen I used on the Pentagon for the " In My Secret Life - Det Stora Vidunderliga ".

Tattoo design by Neil Hardcastle www.warehausstudio.com