Film screening: Jack Straw’s Castle (2009)

23 Nov 2023 7-9pm

Gasworks

London SE11 5RH

Overview

A screening of Rosalind Nashashibi’s acclaimed 2009 film, Jack Straw’s Castle

The film combines footage shot from real -life with staged scenarios that reveal the constructs and performance found in filmmaking as well as human behaviour, and the magical and transformational potential of such actions and staging.

The two halves of the film follow two mechanics of desire. In the first half men wander on the West Heath at dusk, and the second, later at the same spot, an all-night film shoot in the park. Both sections reveal how desire is produced through precise conditions and behaviours. In between the two parts are moments of metamorphosis where humans and animals combine.

This event is free to attend and no booking is required. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The film is approx. 18 minutes in duration and will be looped throughout the evening

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The event accompanies Soft ground, the first UK solo exhibition by Trevor Yeung which continues until 17 December 2023. The gallery will remain open before, during, and after the talk until 6pm.

Gasworks commissions are supported by Catherine Petitgas and Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters.

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Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973 in Croydon, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK) in 1995, after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) where she received her MFA in 2000. Nashashibi became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established in 2020. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017 and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003.

Nashashibi has had solo exhibitions at venues including, Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR); Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius (LT); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); The High Line, New York, NY (US); Tate Britain, London (UK); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK). Nashashibi has participated in group exhibitions at, Centre Georges Pompidou and Forum des Images, Paris (FR); Tate, London (UK); Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); Whitechapel, London (UK); Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US), among others.

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