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ACAVA,
1-15 Cremer Street, Shoreditch, London E2 8HD
Contemporary fine art in an artist-run gallery |
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Headland |
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In a city of 7 million people, sometimes we need our own space to be heard. Headland explores the world of storytelling from different perspectives. Dreams and nightmares mingle with personal memories, myths, legends, family histories, and our experiences and discoveries within urban and rural landscapes. The artists in the exhibition open doors to worlds other than our own immediate environment as they map, dream, think, and feel their way through the gallery. |
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| Tim Braden presents fragile paintings of a Japanese island remembered by an acquaintance but which the artist himself has never visited. | |
| Photographer Lisa Castagner's double-take of a dressing table presents us with a scene devoid of the woman occupying the space. | |
| Tanya Cottingham's books deceive the eye but are feather light facsimiles, a displaced echo of the real items. | |
| The direct and graphic video by Doug Fishbone invites the viewer on a whirlwind journey through Internet-found images, with a narrative filled with bizarre anecdotes, vulgar jokes, faulty logic, and strange social commentary. | |
| Laura Gannon's film-based work centres around real stories and events that evoke mysterious internal logics and questions of the viewer. | |
| Sarah Gillett's sound installation lets us escape from the confines of the gallery into a space far away from the city. | |
| Andrello Jones's lost and found footage from his childhood muses on the nature of memory and recorded event. | |
| Aimee Lawrence presents a live performance in song with great help from the audience. | |
| Filmmaker Luiz Marchetti's powerful documentary compares two cultures trying to share one land. | |
| NICJOB (Nicolas Jasmin) attacks our senses with his sampled sequence from an Alain Corneau film, as linear time and narrative coherence give way to creatively structured chaos, transforming frustration into liberation. | |
| Natasha Rampley's book offers the audience a peek into a different world, with the opportunity to influence it. | |
| Valerie Stahl von Stromberg's compelling photographs present people who are not what they appear to be, who sit uncomfortably in their settings. | |
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Headland
is curated by the students of City University's Department of Continuing
Education Cultural Industries unit. Visit
the exhibition website
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www.theheadland.com/invite |
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