About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

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Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your FaceFilm CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Scotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

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Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your FaceFilm CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Scotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

scotlandandvenice.com t/i: scotlandvenice f: scotlandandvenice

Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your FaceFilm CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Scotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

scotlandandvenice.com t/i: scotlandvenice f: scotlandandvenice

Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your Face Film CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.ukScotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

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Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your Face Film CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.ukScotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

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Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your Face Film CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.ukScotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You

About the work

Referencing the Italian folk-tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary ‘post truth’ political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

Set across two worlds, the upper realm is bright, ordered and glittering, populated by silver-skinned, manipulative characters, while all below is warped, dirty, impoverished, flooded and grey.

A bottle of Truth works its ambiguous perfumed magic, as a Madonna-like character offers a destitute young boy a way into the shimmering riches of the kingdom above. The price he pays is to cast himself morally adrift. He discovers that (un)Truth proves a worthy substitute for the real thing, packaged up and sold to an unquestioning public.

Riches, power and adoration become his just rewards for playing his part in an ethically barren, corporate illusion. At least, until Truth itself runs out. Vacuous statements are employed to manipulate political opinion, feed corporate greed and sell fantasies of perfection.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and…noses.

Alchemy Film & Arts: Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director; Karen Shaw, Scotland + Venice Project Manager; Harriet Warman, Producer; James Maybury, Technical Manager; Ronny Adams, Technical Assistant.

Talbot Rice Gallery: Stuart Fallon, Assistant Curator; Tessa Giblin, Director.

Scotland+Venice Steering Group: Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts; Amanda Catto, Creative Scotland; Juliet Dean, British Council Scotland; Stuart Fallon, Talbot Rice Gallery; Wendy Grannon, Creative Scotland; Simon Groom, National Galleries of Scotland; Sarah MacIntyre, Creative Scotland; Anne Petrie, Creative Scotland; Mark Thomas, Creative Scotland.

Sutton PR: David Field, Victoria Mitchell and Flora Macfarlane.

Design: Rachel Maclean and Katherine Allan.

M&B Studios: Troels Bruun and Luca Delise.

Professional Development Programme Partners: Borders College; City of Glasgow College; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; The Glasgow School of Art; Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

Margaret McCormick, Platform; Martin Ware, Nina Gold Casting; Carla Stronge Casting; Kate and Bob Wheaton; Angus and Catriona Maclean; Massimo Zane, Liceo Marco Foscarini; Giorgio De Battisti, Venice Open Gates; Susan Taylor, Heart of Hawick; Harriet Baker, Sophie Bambrough & James Coltham, Creative Scotland; Edd McCracken & Neil Lebeter, University of Edinburgh; Stuart Bennett, Edinburgh College of Art and Pat Fisher.

scotlandandvenice.com t/i: scotlandvenice f: scotlandandvenice

Presented by:

Partners:

Supporters:

Scotland + Venice

Chiesa di Santa Caterina Fondamenta Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 30121 Vaparetto: Ca’ d’Oro & Fondamente Nove

10am – 6pm, 13 May – 26 November 2017 Tuesday – Sunday, martedi – domenica

Free Admission/Ingresso Gratuito

Spite Your FaceFilm CreditsWritten and Directed by: Rachel Maclean

All parts performed by: Rachel Maclean

Executive Producer: Richard Ashrowan

Produced by: Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar

Director of Photography: David Liddell

1st Assistant Camera: Steven Cook

Gaffer: Niall Smyth

Make-up Artist and Prosthetic application: Kat Morgan

Prosthetics Designers: Kristyan Mallett

Costume and Prop Designer: Rachel Maclean

Costume and Prop Assistants: Lucy Payne, Rae-Yen Song and Catherine McLauchlan

Camera Trainee: Eilidh Murdoch

Casting Assistant: Rachel Nanson

Production Assistants: Kimberley Looi and Sharon Rennie

Sound design: William Aikman

Additional Music: Julian Corrie

Song written by: Finn Anderson

Script Editor: Andrew Cattanach

Voice Actors: Chiara D’Anna, Jack Holden,

Steven McNicoll, Toby Ungleson

Supporting Voices: Omar Daudi, Loubna Kraria, Rodrigo Mata, Celia Diaz Nicieza, Ewelina

Olszewska, Jane Zhang

Stand-in: Natalie Davidson

Runner: Jamie Davidson

Editor and VFX: Rachel Maclean

VFX Assistant: Colin Maclean and Ben Skea

Subtitles and Translation: The Language Connection

Studio Facilities: SWAMP Creative Media Centre, Glasgow

Recording facilities: Sonido, Glasgow and Shelter Studio, London

Insurance: David Johnstone, WK Film Insurance

Production Company: Barry Crerar

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based artist (b.1987, Edinburgh, Scotland). Working predominantly with the moving image, Maclean has had significant recent success, with major exhibitions at HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain in 2016. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, her work came to public attention in New Contemporaries 2009. She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

Recent exhibitions include: Wot u :-) about? (2016), HOME, Manchester and Tate Britain, London; We Want Data (2016), Artpace San Antonio, Texas; Feed Me (2015), British Art Show 8; Ok, You’ve Had Your Fun, Casino Luxembourg (2015); Please, Sir…, Rowing, London (2014); The Weepers, Comar, Mull (2014); Happy & Glorious, CCA, Glasgow (2014), part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Recent screenings include: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread at MILL 6, Hong Kong (2016); Athens and Luxembourg Film Festival (2016); Moving Pictures, British Council and Film London (2015-16); Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014).

www.rachelmaclean.com

Curator’s StatementScotland has a vibrant creative ecosystem and its

artists’ film and moving image sector is vital and strong. Rachel Maclean is a radical voice who is

inspiring a new generation, perfectly capturing Scotland’s creative spirit of energised political

reinvention.

We selected Rachel for her unflinching ability to critique the underlying fears and

desires that characterise the zeitgeist we find ourselves in, with all its dynamics of status, power and consumption. Possessing exceptional artistic confidence and vigour, her work is intellectually challenging and visually provocative.

Our first screening of Rachel’s work was in 2012, at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. Bringing Rachel’s work to the international

stage within La Biennale di Venezia is a huge privilege. Chiesa di Santa

Caterina, now deconsecrated, was established to uphold moral authority and political-religious power. Today, it offers us a new context for Rachel’s work,

cutting across cultural divides to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the

21st century.

Spite Your Face is a work that champions the potential for art to be a critical, transformative and

universally self-empowering force. We celebrate this and sincerely welcome the participation of every visitor to this

exhibition.

Richard Ashrowan, Curator Alchemy Film & Arts

www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Scotland + Venice

WelcomeThe Scotland + Venice partnership is delighted to introduce a major new film commission by Rachel Maclean as a Collateral Event for the 57th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.

Possessing a unique and often disturbing vision, Maclean’s fantasy narratives combine traditional modes of theatre with technology and popular culture, raising critical questions about identity, economy, society, connectivity and morality.

Scotland + Venice was founded in 2003 to promote the best contemporary art from Scotland on an international stage. It is a strategic initiative supported and managed by Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

Scotland + Venice is staffed by emerging artists and arts professionals from across Scotland. In 2017 we are proud to be working with the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and other institutions including Borders College, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art, to make this professional development opportunity possible.

Maclean’s exhibition is curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

The work of Rachel Maclean will be presented at Talbot Rice Gallery in early 2018.

Acknowledgements

Thank You