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SUMMARY:Sophie Morrish – Island Time: North Uist Works
DESCRIPTION:Island Time: North Uist Works\nSophie Morrish\n31 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER\nCurated by Mel Gooding\nFor ten years artist Sophie Morrish has lived and worked on the remote Outer Hebridean island of North Uist. During that period her artistic practice has been continuous with her life: walking\, finding\, photographing\, identifying and collecting the natural objects cast by the Atlantic upon the island’s shore\, and registering the changing skies and clouds\, the rhythm of the tides\, the littoral light and weathers. \nThis long-term artistic process places Morrish squarely in the line of those contemporary artists who work within the ambit of landscape and the natural world: Herman de Vries\, Richard Long\, Chris Drury\, and Giuseppe Penone. \nThis spectacular exhibition constitutes nothing less than a thrilling phenomenology of deep time and natural processes in a unique place\, insular and marine. In its presentations – drawings\, photographs\, arrays and arrangements — the immediacy of real time\, its stark lives\, deaths and transmutations\, is inserted within the vastness of cosmic and oceanic time\, measured by the phases of the moon\, the circling sun\, and the endless rocking of the sea upon the shores of the world. \nMel Gooding is the author of Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape (Thames and Hudson 2002) and Herman de Vries: Chance and Change (Thames and Hudson 2006) \nCatalogue Available \n  \nIllustrated: Detail of Constellation (After Fire)\, burnt animal bones on board\, 2018
URL:https://project-space.london/event/5622
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SUMMARY:Claudia De Grandi: Waves and Horizons
DESCRIPTION:Waves and Horizons\nClaudia de Grandi\n4 – 8 SEPTEMBER\nCurated by Alan Rankle\nPrivate View Wednesday 5th September 6 – 9 pm\n  \nClaudia De Grandi brings an impressive suite of new works to Bermondsey Project Space – a venue recognized for exhibitions of challenging cutting-edge contemporary art. \nAs the first artist to be invited to present works on all three floors of the gallery\, De Grandi’s installation Waves & Horizons comprises Paintings\, Photographs\, Prints and Videos. \nThere is a tangible and literal depth of feeling in Claudia De Grandi’s recent works. These new paintings from the two series Waves and Horizons are based on her observations and photographs of the Pacific Ocean and closer to home the steel grey waters of the English Channel near to her Hastings studio. \nThey make sublime and alluringly poetic images\, referencing as they do the seascapes of Turner and Whistler while at the same time expanding and revisiting the historical Modernist genre of Colour Field Abstraction. The paintings in the series work equally well as contemporary depictions of light and movement within water\, yet are also pervasively drawing the viewer into the abstract. \nIn a noticeably filmic way\, some of the paintings evoke the darkly threatening waters of a psychological thriller\, you can sense a disturbing\, metronomic soundtrack hinting at deep waters and danger below the shimmering surface. \nThese themes actively precipitate De Grandi’s vision for the entire evolving work as a total immersive installation of painting and music which will be presented next year at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. \nThis upcoming exhibition\, curated by Alan Rankle\, is her debut solo showing in London and gives an intimate insight into the development of her project. \n  \nA Brazilian born artist who lives and works in East Sussex\, De Grandi makes her art with well defined and far-reaching objectives: \n  \n\nWhen I am painting the action of creating connects me to a greater moment of happening – it is the What and the only thing happening at that moment \nReality is a mystery. When trying to paint it you then realize it’s impossible. It can only be painted as it is immediately seen\, in front of you\, and then modified by the feeling that it transmits. \n\n  \nDe Grandi’s works are increasingly attracting art world and press attention via a series of international exhibitions and performance/installations\, with her paintings finding eager collectors in New York\, Milan\, Tokyo and London. \n  \nA fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Tom Burke CBE\, Alan Rankle and John Stezaker will accompany the exhibition. \n  \n  \nProject Space Bermondsey \n183 -185 Bermondsey St. \nLondon SE1 3UW \n(adjacent to White Cube Bermondsey) \n  \nIn Association with: \n \n  \nExhibition Sponsors:
URL:https://project-space.london/event/claudia-de-grandi-waves-and-horizons
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180916
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SUMMARY:Debbie Castro -- I - CUT
DESCRIPTION:I-CUT\nDebbie Castro\n11 – 15  September\nPrivate View Thursday  13th September 6 – 9 pm\n  \nI have an overwhelming need to document key changes and turning points in my life and to capture those moments and memories in image\, thus when my husband and I were planning pregnancy I needed a specific document of my body before all the changes that were about to happen to it – my way to be in control and to consciously choose change\, readying myself to move from the now that I recognise to whatever is next. My husband took the polaroid. I hated it\, I hated myself in it\, right then I hated him a bit for not knowing what I needed\, for not taking the moment seriously.I picked up the scissors and I cut\, I cut out all the bits that annoyed me and I was cutting his lack of care and my frustration and fear of the unknown.  I put the pieces in a blue plastic sandwich back and zipped it shut forever only to re-find them later and really love them and the disjointedness of the image they created. \n  \nStem from an image of the photographer and her emotional reaction to it\, the body of work I-CUT is about turning the subject and photographer relationship on its head in producing a piece\, a representation that cannot and will not exist without the photographer but the final image and its meaning are out of her control. \nIt is a collaboration as the person portrayed self-directs their pose and then edits their own image – cutting the polaroid\, but it is also a performance that produces a unique object as Castro is always there documenting their reaction\, but there is only one single unreproducible polaroid taken.
URL:https://project-space.london/event/debbie-castro-2
CATEGORIES:Events,Previous Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Philip Volkers: Dust to Dawn - A Photographic Adventure at Burning Man
DESCRIPTION:Dust to Dawn\nA photographic Adventure at Burning Man\nPhilip Volkers\n11 – 15 September 2018\nRenegade photographer Philip Volkers’ book “Dust to Dawn” which is to be published by Kehrer Verlag\, at the end of August\, documents his visual adventures at Nevada’s notorious Burning Man Festival over a 10-year period. Every year 75\,000 people descend on an alkaline lake bed in Nevada for The Burning Man Festival\, a highly influential festival and heaven for enquiring minds. Few people are fortunate enough to experience a decade of Burning Man\, one of the most extraordinary human gatherings in the world\, but as official photographer\, Philip Volkers has captured the many raw and spiritual moments from the festival over the past ten years. The culminated works from his unique vantage point have led to the creation of a new art book ‘Dust to Dawn’ published by Kehrer Verlag and an exhibition of large-scale works to be held at the Bermondsey Project Space before touring to the Lucy Bell Gallery in St Leonards-on-Sea. Volkers’ passion is the documentation of spiritual\, hedonistic gatherings\, and exploring the meaning behind them. \n  \n“I have always had a fascination with human gatherings and what first attracted me to Burning Man was that it is one of the only places on Earth that transgresses commodification; a place where people from across the globe are stripped of social crutches such as mobile phones and gather to push themselves to the limits of survival and expression. Burning Man is a completely unique opportunity to see amazing art combined with cutting edge technology. Dust to Dawn celebrates iconic Burning Man artists and designers such as Alex Wreckage and his ‘Lost Tea Party’ and Marco Cochrane. Having been part of Burning man for 10 years\, I have seen it evolve into the global phenomenon that it is today but at its core the fundamentals of what Burning Man stands for remain the same\, and ‘Dust to Dawn’ and the exhibition is my way of celebrating Burning Man and revealing a little of the magic that lies under its surface.”  \n  \nThe book “Dust to Dawn”\, fully sanctioned by Burning Man\, and exhibition showcases Philip Volkers’ work as a photographer\, an anthropological enthusiast and documenter of a festival that continues to captivate the world. \nAn exhibition timed to coincide with the launch of the Publication of Philip Volkers book “Dust to Dawn” published by Kehrer Verlag.
URL:https://project-space.london/event/philip-volkers
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SUMMARY:Maryam Eisler: Adventures & Obsession
DESCRIPTION:Adventure & Obsession\nMaryam Eisler\n18 – 30 SEPTEMBER\nPrivate View Thursday  20th September 6 – 9 pm\n  \nPhotographer Maryam Eisler presents images from two series #She and Havana: Beauty and Dereliction over the two floors of the gallery.\n  \nGallery 1 – Ground Floor \n#She\n[row][one_col] \n[/one_col][/row]Across cultures\, the Sublime Feminine or in the context of this exhibition SHE\, has been associated with a spiritual force best ennobled through creative expression — beautiful\, soulful\, sensual and intellectual; a force which at its crux carries the greatest mystery of all\, that of human creation. From a personal perspective\, the Sublime Feminine has fascinated Eisler\, who has sought out this interest photographically in different places and environmental spaces\, a personal journey of sorts during which she has tried to trace and visually revitalize this energy\, embodied in the female form\, as set against the grandeur of nature. \n  \nFor her first public series back in 2015\, Eisler followed in the footsteps of the great painter Georgia O’Keeffe\, experiencing first-hand a small part of her journey among the truly grand barren landscapes of New Mexico. The experience\, haunting and vital\, set against unimaginably sharp blue skies and rock-strewn valleys in shades of rust made her whisper O’Keeffe’s own words to the wind: “Such a beautiful untouched lonely feeling place\, such a new part of what I call the Faraway.” Lost in time\, trying to tie purpose to creative endeavor\, she began a visual dialectic with the sources of her budding inspiration\, whilst grasping to understand the outlines of her own poetic adventure. \nThus was born the search for Eve\, Mother Earth’s first muse. “I saw her standing atop rocky inclines\, as sensual and powerful as the monumental nature surrounding her.” In 2016\, Eisler happened upon the Carrières de Lumières (Quarries of Light)\, an ‘Underworld’ of sorts\, tucked away in the heart of Provence — a place imbued with texture and light\, a perfect setting to seek out mythic antecedents\, such as the story of Orpheus and Eurydice\, a tale re-visited by Jean Cocteau\, in that same mythic location\, fifty or so years before. It is here that Eisler decided to marry reality to myth\, photographically exploring universal themes common to all cultures alike: love and lust\, passion\, temptation and unconquered passions. \nIn 2017\, the yellow brick road led her to the Catskills\, a place of some mystery\, beautiful and vibrant\, alive with its own spiritual and folkloric rhythm\, hewn out of the land. It is in these surroundings that Eisler was transported by childhood memories and magical fairytales of enchanted water sirens and forest nymphs\, all mesmerizing creatures\, reunited in an unlikely and imaginary melting pot. It is fair to say that Eisler’s oeuvre has been driven by fantasy and it is in such settings of immeasurable natural grandeur as in New Mexico\, Provence and the Catskills\, that universal dreams have turned into reality. \n  \nGallery 2 – First Floor \nHavana: Beauty and Dereliction\n[row][one_col] [/one_col][/row]\nIt is sometimes impossible to distinguish between beauty and dereliction when it comes to history\, art and architecture. \nIn Havana\, this distinction becomes even more blurred. The former Spanish colonial capital city is a UNESCO world heritage site. Preserved in time\, pickled since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Nevertheless\, beauty there is aplenty\, as I found on my first visit in May 2017. \nIt was as if I’d entered a time-warp. The city’s faded facades form some of the most wonderful Spanish colonial style architecture I’ve come across in Latin America. Photogenic people\, the Cubans; they have an air of freedom born of necessity. Life’s hard\, very hard. So\, make the best of it! Seems to be their philosophy. \nIn photography\, this translates into whatever you want to make out of it. Showing the face of bankrupt ideologies\, the crumbling socialist visage of resistance. And the eternal spirit of goodwill that comes from shared hardships and kind fellowship amongst humans. \nDefiance was the word that struck me early on in my hunt for scenes to shoot. Scenarios to craft\, fashioned out of the very little that existed. I could portray an elderly grand dame\, say; Mrs Alonso whose salons in her grand mansion were the talk of town in their heyday. Now\, an old pensioner barely receiving $10 a month\, she is reduced to living in a house with crumbling ceilings\, amongst some colourful mementoes imprinted in her memory\, a vintage Silvertone record player\, and the odd ornaments that time’s ravages have left behind. Her class shows through\, despite the not-so gentile poverty and through her choice of the French language to communicate with me. I could perhaps conjure Marcel Proust? But also a bit of magic surrealism: Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabelle Allende? \n  \nCan decay become diversity\, I wonder? Asking the walls to reveal their secrets. If only they could talk. Can I wind the clock backwards and try to imagine the airs and graces of ladies who lunched in the extravagance of what used to be one of Latin America’s richest\, and most splendid of cities.Havana was a jewel\, and it needed my photographer’s diamond polished lens. Dust off the façade and add a dash of colourful pizzaz. A piece of furniture here. A cracked vase displayed over there. The dress the lady wore on her birthday sixty years ago. Let the old contrast with even older relics gathering dust\, whether humans or objects. Havana is a city of pathos more than modern contradictions. The irony is that the city transforms decrepitude\, turning it into something inviting. For the visitor\, that is. We’re blessed in our daily lives in European plenitude. Let the unfeeling camera spare a thought for lost graces that are still carried through the airs of haunted corridors of the city where two million souls reside. \nThis city that has become an open-air museum filled with nostalgia. For revolutionaries\, there’s Che and Fidel\, their faces plastering every prominent public space. Demi-gods who have visited ruin on this rich land. Yet love and adorations still follow in their tracks\, their words gospel to hungry ears. \nAnd there’s creativity. Pockets of talent bubbling to the surface where it can\, seeking fresh\, unpolluted political airs. Let’s hope the bubbles don’t pop in the continuing climate of political decay. And there’s music\, everywhere you turn a corner. Radio\, guitar\, drums\, anything that conjures a bit of mood change. Salsa\, Mambo\, Rumba … but also ballet. Yes\, ballet. And very good they are\, these kids who cannot afford ballet shoes and yet practice on the streets and the quiet of tucked away spaces in La Habana Vieja. \nThe city’s contradictions extend into the minds of its people. The younger generation dream of Miami and New York\, whilst the old cling on to the faded revolutionary rhetoric of the past. Like older generations everywhere\, change is feared. \nIf you want drama and music\, dance and the poetry of motion with young beautiful people walking as if in a ballad of the fifties\, go for a walk on the Malecon in the evenings. Watch imaginary Al Capones and Che Guevaras ride past in a 1955 Plymouth Belvedere. A massive Cohiba showing what history can magic-up in the itinerant photographer’s mind! \n  \nAbout Maryam Eisler \nMaryam Eisler has shown her work at Photo London\, Unseen Amsterdam\, the Dallas Art Fair and at Harper’s Books in East Hampton. Eisler’s work is held by the Davis Museum\, Wellesley College. \nEisler is a board member of the Columbia University Global Centers and is also a member of the Tate International Council and co-chairs Tate’s MENAAC acquisitions committee. As a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London\, she sits on the advisory board of Photo London and is a nominator for the Prix Pictet photography prize. \nShe is a contributing editor to LUX magazine\, a Condé Nast publication\, and has contributed both photographically and editorially to Harpers Bazaar Art\, Vanity Fair ‘on Art’ UK as well as Vogue Arabia. Eisler is represented by Tristan Hoare in London and Harper’s Books in New York. \nShe has had executive editorial roles on several publications including Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios; Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City. Her 2017 book Voices: East London (for which she supplied both text and photographs) was co-published by Thames and Hudson and TransGlobe Publishing. \n  \n 
URL:https://project-space.london/event/next-exhibition-maryam-eisler-adventures-and-obsession-2
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