new exhibitions
JOHN HANSARD GALLERY

University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
023 8059 2158

www.hansardgallery.org.uk
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Tue-Fri 11-5, Sat 11-4

M3 / A33 BR

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Click to enlargeCAROLINE BERGVALL : MIDDLING ENGLISH
Sep 7 - Oct 23, 2010
Writing practices that move beyond the printed letter: Chaucerian contemporaneity recombined with songline patterns, systemic grids and luminescent texts.

DAVID COTTERRELL : MONSTERS OF THE ID
Feb 11 - Mar 31, 2012
Private view Sat Feb 11
Derived from Cotterrell's journeys to Afghanistan, this new work explores the contradiction between the abstraction of experience and the literal nature of documentation. Through image manipulation, staging, CGI and new projection techniques, the 'truth' of film and photographic imagery has been increasingly called into question over the last two decades. This work looks at the role of these new display techniques in defining the essence of contemporary events. The result is a body of work that comments beyond the media representation that most of us regard as a record of key current events.
 
The development of the exhibition has been supported through residencies with the Joint Forces Medical Group in Helmand province and civilian agencies in the northern provinces of Afghanistan enabled by Wellcome Trust, the RSA and the Philip Leverhulme Prize for research. Co-curated with Helen Sloan, SCAN.

QUARANTANIA
Apr 24 - Jun 9, 2012
Neha Choksi, Eva Kotátková,
Taus Makhacheva.

 
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