After the house is burnt, pick up the nails
Working with appropriated and collected footage, After the house is burnt, pick up the nails investigates manifestations of language. Filmed in the mesmeric city of Seoul, the film draws out contradictory flashes of familiarity and ambiguity as the international language of advertising sells the audience the notion of Metropolis as utopia. If advertising advertises advertising, (Marshall McLuhan), then this self-referencing principle is both the device the film appropriates and the culture within which it is integrated.

Katie Davies
Katie Davies was born in 1979 and graduated from the MA in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2005.  After graduating she undertook an international residency and teaching programme at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea. Davies has exhibited in national and international group shows including: North West at Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam, Freeshout, Prato, Italy, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, and her first Solo Show, Bloc Space, Sheffield. Forthcoming projects include: Centrifuge, a Northern cross-regional contemporary art project in collaboration with Artists Imogen Stidworthy and Dirk Fleischmann, a collaboration with Steve Dutton at The Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, and a commission for Art Sheffield 08 for Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum. Katie Davies lives and works in Sheffield and is a studio Member at S1 Artspace, Sheffield.

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