Staging Schiele, 2019
Structure
Steel, gauze, LED lights
Southbank Centre, London.
Staging Schiele captures the artist's own self-conscious framing of himself and his work. The installation created for Shobana Jeyasingh’s production, is a modular steel structure given a partial skin of stretched fabric and energised by individually controllable LED batons. Williams - an admirer of Schiele’s drawings - aimed to express their tension through the architectural forces within the structure. The structure defines, yet abstracts and fragments space, creating this tension between the internal and the external. The internal can be seen as a space of becoming and uncertainty, mirroring anxious psychological states. The external is suggestive of a place of certainty and self-confidence. Tension draws out issues of our own human condition, one of becoming and transformation, between the internal and the external.
