Elizabeth Price's FLAMIN Productions supported film, West Hinder (2012), will premiere as part of Price's major solo show at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, from 3 February - 27 May 2012.

The exhibition, entitled Here, will bring together three of Price's major works: User Group Disco (2009), Choir (2011), shown for the first time in its entirety, alongside West Hinder (2012).

Elizabeth Price creates dense and immersive video installations that bring together image, text and music in apocalyptic, phantasmagorical narratives. She uses existing bodies of historical material to generate fantasy stories, drawing upon archives of photography, film and collections of artefacts.

Commodity culture and consumerism are re-occurring themes in Price's work and are acknowledged as complex and determining expressions of human lives, social relationships and our collective ideas. Price's latest video, West Hinder, explores these concerns through a 'ruined cargo' - a containership of new, luxury cars, at the bottom of the sea. The vessel sank in 2002 in West Hinder, an area of the Channel which is not within the jurisdiction of any State nor covered by radar.

West Hinder is supported by FLAMIN Productions as well as the Elephant Trust, the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College. For this video Price has worked with composer and musician Brian Rietzell, who created the BAFTA nominated soundtrack for Lost in Translation.

User Group Disco is set in the 'Hall of Sculptures', a fictional institutional building. Through a series of reveries and hallucinations a collection of redundant and kitsch consumer objects swirl in the darkness. Through on-screen text and bold graphics, the narrators define a new space for the neglected objects to reside.

Choir is a trilogy of videos that draws on archives of photography and digital film. Price plays with the dual meaning of the title, which can refer to either an ensemble of singers or an area of a church. The edit combines photographs and archival research of church architecture set against an intense soundtrack of distorted noise, singing, appropriated pop melodies and the sound of staccato handclaps to create a dissonant concert.

Elizabeth Price lives and works in London. Recent solo presentations and screenings have included Chisenhale Gallery, Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, as well as Spike Island in Bristol. Group shpws have included the British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery London and tour and Archivo-Archivanti, Intermediae Madrid in 2011. Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Filmaus Stuttgart and Gotenberg International Film Festival Draken Cinema Gothenberg, 2010.

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