Contact information
lydiaanne.m.seaman@gmail.comThe show takes a reference from ‘The City of Clarice’ in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a city that repeatedly collapses and is rebuilt from fragments of its past. Each iteration gestures toward a future that never quite fits.
Fourteen early career artists working primarily with sculpture, installation and audio visual pieces have been invited to engage with themes of shifting value systems and changing attitudes. The body is explored through voice and performances that encourage community engagement. The city’s fabric exhibits humanity’s continual process at attempted erasure followed by reimagining or repurposing of its remnants.
The space itself, once data and finance offices, now functions as an art gallery, evidence of the evolution of architectural usage. Our city’s infrastructures have been developed to facilitate systems of economy and trade, the proximity to the river Thames a reminder of the international passage of goods and people into and out of the city.
The artists work with material as varied as foam, hair, clay, discarded metal, blue shirts, river silt. The gallery is a place to rehearse and inhabit with works that speak to the nature of the precarious and unstable and yet not in a way that despairs but by embracing chance and play. The collision of materials, practices and ways of being encourages collaboration.
Artists in the show
- Breeze Bee
- Monika Drabot
- Eric Fei
- Jonathan Hadari
- Sarah Hopper
- Wesley Power
- Nikita Savostyanov
- Lydia Seaman
- Jacob Sirkin
- Philip Steele
- Carter Tam
- Daniel Rhys Wakefield
- George Wigley
- Minghao Wu
