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This video piece, developed specifically for New Ruins, will create a mounting sense of unease as tension mounts and disaster beckons. Myrup will draw on her investigations into the fleeting moment and the brevity and fragility of human life to present a new work in which edited fragments of disaster movies are juxtaposed with one another as destruction mounts. Questioning the scale of the catastrophic moment, Myrup’s borrowed aesthetic conjures both melancholy and humour as she points to the preciousness of gentle gestures. ‘Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.’ (TS Elliot).

Myrup is a Danish artist living and working in Glasgow.

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2002, Martine Myrup has exhibited in group shows, solo shows and residencies throughout Scotland including most recently the Maid of Corinth at Market Gallery, Glasgow, and the prestigious Hospitalfield Houseresidency (Royal Scottish Academy, with upcoming publication).
Forthcoming projects include Sidekick, as part of Sideshow in Nottingham, the 2006 Glasgow Art Fair represented by Market Gallery Glasgow and Bonnie Prince German, at the Alm in Munich.