In the series of works "Language For Sale", letters are mixed up and language has broken down losing its sense and meaning. Inspired by Scottish concrete and sound poetry, the salvaged metal, plastic, neon letters bear witness to the city's industrial and economic past; obsolete signs abandoned after the collapse of a business or industry, desperately clinging onto architectural facades, their former role as signifier within the social space now gone.

Artists Louise Crawford and Stéphan Guéneau salvaged Roberts Sports and The Leather Store defunct shop signs in the Merchant City while photographing the area for an art and architecture research project in 2001.

Louise and Stéphan have worked together since 1992, collaborating initially on 16mm film and since 2000 on photographic work. This combination of film and photography now informs much of their work on inner city landscapes. Street Level hosted a solo show by the artists in 2003/4, 'Cinema', a selection of photographs on the ambiguity of perception of the city at night and the change darkness and artificial light make to the urban topography; the camera illuminating parts of a city that are purposefully left in darkness and forgotten.

The Leather Store

Roberts Sports

C.V.

Exhibitions

2011
Language For Sale. Trongate 103 Foyer, Glasgow.
Language For Sale - A Serendip(ci)ity #5. A Trans Pavilion curated by Isolde Nagel, Berlin.
L'Hiver ou le déluge, group show. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.

2010
Invisible? group show. A project curated by Rada Boukova, Thomas Fontaine and Shanta Rao for the
Belleville Biennale. Atelier Sambre et Meuse, Paris.
How strange it is to be standing leaning against the current of time. Street Level Gallery Off-site
project during Glasgow International.

2009
On ne voit rien venir, group show. Galerie Ma Collection, Paris
Projections Contructives, group show. Micro-Onde Gallery, Vélizy Villacoublay.
Louise Crawford & Stéphan Guéneau / Ian Gray / Manuel Lagoa / David Marin, group show.
Galerie Taïss, Paris.

2008
Mientras la ciudad duerme. VVV Gallery, Buenos Aires.
Lost. Micro-Onde Gallery, Vélizy-Villacoublay.

2007
Palais des Glaces, group show, invited by &nbsp. Galerie Du Bellay, Rouen.
L'Iceberg (Xploitation, Love etc./volet 1), group show, invited by &nbsp. Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

2006
Garden Party #2, group show. &nbsp, La Générale, Paris.
Gothic Obsolete. La Vitrine, Paris.

2005
Quand la ville dort. &nbsp, La Générale, Paris.
Territoires Virtuels, group show. Île de Nantes, Nantes.

2003-2004
Cinema. Street Level Gallery, Glasgow

Films distributed by Lightcone, Paris.
A set of Glances 1999 16mm colour silent 2' 30"
Start 1998 16mm b/w 2'
Waste(d)ground+fleurs 1998 16mm b/w & colour 10'
La série West Highland Way/Highlands/Dennistoun 1995 16mm colour 3'
Test 1994 16mm b/w & col. 3'
Claiming Territory 1993 16mm b/w 3' 35"
Festung Europa; Shifting Peripheries 1992 16mm b/w & col. 7'

Publications
2009 Projections constructives, L'Onde, it: éditions, Vélizy-Villacoublay.
2007 Territoires de L'image- Le Fresnoy 10 ans de créations, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing.
2002 Fieldwork: art & architecture collaboration. Visual Arts Projects publisher, Glasgow.
1995 Défilé : De Film : Recadré - Film comme installation. Scratch Projection publisher, Paris.
1992 Lux Europæ. Lux Europæ Trust publisher, Edinburgh.

Since 2000 we have been regular guest lecturers at Syracuse University in London