Christine Borland, Second Class Male, Second class female, 1996. Collection of Howard and Donna Stone.

The Fruitmarket Gallery will present Christine Borland, on view December 2 through January 28, 2007. The Fruitmarket Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of work by Christine Borland. This exhibition brings together a selection of existing, recent, and newly commissioned work, offering an opportunity to trace the development of Borland’s ideas across the range of her practice.

Christine Borland makes art which deals with the body, and with our emotional, imaginative, medical and historical sense of self. Her practice is hugely varied, yet it is united by a number of constants. Chief among these is an insistent interrogation of objects and situations which shed light on the junction between the fact of the body and the more imaginative or conceptual construct of the self: the mechanics and the mystery of human existence. The kind of objects with which Borland works tend to be those with a close practical, imaginative or symbolic relationship to the human body. Shoes, blankets, slippers, crockery, bones and cell cultures have all featured in her work, as have objects with more elliptical associations, such as diamonds, birds, guns, apples, watermelons, leaves, plants and trees.

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