VULTURE TICK – ANIMAL ANALOGY

recital, Vulture Tick Animal Analogy, group screening, 

curated by Rut Blees Luxemburg, 

Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Space, London 

2010

THE SKINNED CITY
Curated by Steffi Klenz

Guest Projects
1 Andrews Road
London, E8 4QL
20 March – 18 April 2010
Preview: Friday 19 March 2010, 6.30-9pm

Unlike treating the city as an assemblage of material objects and architectural spaces, this exhibition brings together different visual approaches to the idea of ´dwelling´. Dwelling – just like ‘living’ or ‘lingering’ – is understood here as an active engagement of thought in present tense: to reside, to remain.

In an attempt to observe and grasp our surroundings, all works exhibited are focusing on margins rather than actual buildings, on the liminal spaces and ambiguous boundaries marking out the city and the different places within it. Accordingly, the show promotes some rather idiosyncratic takes on the world around us: often on the edges of the visible, the works unpeel the city space and its various layers – not to arrive at a ‘deeper truth’, but to undo the many planes of a cityscape.

In turning the periphery into its centre, we experience the city as a layered space that functions like a continuously changing membrane, breathing in and out. Imaginary as well as physical in its different functions, the city’s skin becomes an interface we live in: an enveloping surface, a container.

By visually peeling away the submerged city layers, the show looks at real and conceptual thresholds, interior and exterior walls – similar to any self that experiences the world both on its skin and through its skin.

Participating artists: 
Rut Blees Luxemburg, Christian Hagemann, Steffi Klenz, Wiebke Leister, Melissa Moore, David Spero, Eva Stenram

Associated Event:
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 7.30pm
VULTURE TICK – ANIMAL ANALOGY
This Evening screening of contemporary video artists features work of Karen Knorr, Michelle Naismith, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Greta Alfaro and Sharon Green amongst others.

Yinka Shonibare’s Space is open Friday and Saturday from 11am to 6pm and Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.

http://www.guestprojects.com/past/skinned-city/