- Venue
- Chelsea Futurespace
- Starts
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008
- Ends
- Friday, October 31, 2008
- Address
- Hepworth Court, Grosvenor Waterside Gatliff Road London SW1W 8QP
- Location
- London
Blow My Skirt UpWorks by 12 contemporary artists Blow my skirt up is immediate, temporal. The expression informs directly and by default. The shadow of Marilyn in her white dress hovers. She's sexy – let's celebrate. Perhaps there is something alluring about the shadow of masculinity falling across feminism now.Jo Melvin, foreword 'Blow My Skirt Up' In contemporary London vernacular, 'Blow my skirt up' identifies the temporary and the joyful. The work on show is an outburst of twelve artists, who all live or work in the city, but who are also all migrants to the metropolis. As well as disparate biographies the artists have vastly differing interests and ways of working. The show defies any attempt to be shoehorned into a theme or defined by the 'collective' of participants. As Melvin notes, the artists 'become like an open discussion where what happens occurs without first seeking to establish an arbitrary connectivity before the event'.
