I see myself there, where I am not - Group show


30 Jul – 29 Jul 2010
Exhibition
Mixed

Stour Road, Fish Island, Hackney Wick
London E3 2NT
Forman's Smokehouse Gallery
07947 175 283


Greta Alfaro, Melissa Bugarella, Jorge Cabieses-Valdes, Mary Cork, Blue Curry, David Ferrando-Giraut, Maria Karantzi, Harry Meadows, Gorka Mohamed, Conrad Ventur

“I see myself there, where I am not”, brings together the work of 10 artists who examine the various ways that art is used as a heteropological accessory, a mode realised by the gaze of the viewer, simultaneously representing and unpicking utopian ideals by channelling veins of the uncanny with fantasy, narrative, humour, styles of documentation.

Foucault describes the heterotopia as an enacted utopia; a counter-site; a representation; a mirror of something unreal that exists in reality. It is not the reflection that is the heterotopia, but the mirror itself and its surroundings that contain the fiction.