Chris

Grygiel

SITES UNDER CONSTRUCTION (CUBA, 1962)

Chris Grygiel’s practice is located in the dialogue between history and memory, modifying historical documentation and cultural fragments from a diverse range of sources to create entertaining, beguiling and unsettling works in a range of media.  His current research includes a cataloguing and commodification of Godard’sWeek End’ and Erase(r)head, a project involving the erasure of the David Lynch film Eraserhead.

Chris is the composer of ‘Mr. Sandman (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb)’ and has recently exhibited work with the Trace group in Manchester and Liverpool, Outpost, in Norwich, and ROOM Artspace, London.

 

Born in Manchester, UK

chrisgrygiel@hotmail.com