\u201cLife Is Short But Love Is Long\u201d documents and extends a performance installation by Johnston Sheard, presented in Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London in 2018. Eight musicians, including Sheard, confined in a glass-walled room for three hours, improvise on the same chord motif. This work is part of Sheard’s ongoing project \u201cHow Can You Love Me Knowing That I Could Never Love You\u201d \u2013 a series of vignettes in sculpture, installation, s\u00e9ance and a feature length musical essay film dedicated to historical lovers mortally separated by tragic circumstances. The artist creates a bittersweet graveyard comprised of shrines, with sculptures as series of totems, formed from shells and organic matter, a group of denizens halfway between life and inanimacy each representing hermaphroditic creatures.<\/p>\n
Johnston Sheard is a London based Scottish artist. His work focuses on experimental film with scored song-cycles, and intricate sculptural constructions. He combines a baroque architectural sense with anti-digital aesthetics, creating sentimental narratives reflecting on a theological universe. Johnston Sheard is one of he founders on The Deep Splash, his artistic vision in 2015-6 helped to transmute the interview format into interpretive films, serving as works themselves.<\/p>\n
Sheard studied in Central Saint Martins and University of Westminster. Recently he had a show at Kunstraum, London and Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London and was part of the group exhibition \u2018The Future Is Certain; It\u2019s the Past Which Is Unpredictable\u201d in Calvert 22 Foundation, London and Blaffer Art Museum, Houston.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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