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PROGRESS REPORTS : ART IN AN ERA OF DIVERSITY
Jan 28 - Mar 13, 2010
Multi-voiced exhibition including artists Oreet Ashery, Larissa Sansour, Sanford Biggers, and Kara Walker.
SOCIAL FABRIC EXHIBITION
Jan 19 - Mar 10, 2012
Private view Wed Jan 18 6pm - 8pm Textiles are used to explore colonial history labour, capital, international trade and radical politics.
In the 19th Century Karl Marx's account of the cotton industry tracked fifty years of boom and bust and the effects this had on workers in Britain and its colonies (and in particular India). Social Fabric cross references different accounts of textile history, focusing on works by two contemporary artists Sudhir Patwardhan and Alice Creischer, presented alongside extensive range of recent and historical archival material, including Company Paintings, Indian Chintz, original journals from Marx, films, photographs, newspaper articles and recordings of mill workers' testimonies.
press release
ROEE ROSEN
Mar 21 - May 5, 2012
Private view Tue Mar 20 6pm - 8pm Installation and film exploring power, pleasure and cultural politics. Artist, writer and filmmaker Roee Rosen provocatively questions the construction of identity observing historical and social dynamics. Works in the exhibition include installation 'Live and Die as Eva Braun', 1995 - 1997 and award-winning film 'Out' (Tse), 2010.
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