- Venue
- MEANTIME
- Starts
- Friday, March 22, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, March 23, 2013
- Address
- Oxford Passage, Off St Margaret's Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4EF
- Location
- South West England
***Private view: Thursday 21st March, 6-9pm*** For their residency at Meantime Ali Kayley and Dan Glaister continue their work on landscape and the moving figure. In Conquistador (2010-11), a series of short films shot in California and Mexico examining migration through the homeward journey of a Mexican worker, they looked at memory, death and return. For their latest project they focus on Purgatory: the idea, as explored in myth and ritual, as well as literature and visual art; and the place, a small copse at latitude 51.757923, longitude -2.172396, east of Slad, near Stroud. Three miles to the north lies the hamlet of Paradise. In the Middle Ages, sinners hoped to avoid going to Purgatory after their death by purchasing Indulgences, or pardons, chits of paper bearing extravagant promises sold by travelling pardoners. Prior to the residency Ali Kayley and Dan Glaister have produced a series of Indulgences incorporating drawings of Purgatory with text printed using traditional letterpress process. During the residency, working with 16mm film, they hope to film and show the flight from Purgatory.
