- Venue
- No Format Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, October 9, 2014
- Ends
- Sunday, November 2, 2014
- Address
- Second Floor Studios & Arts Harrington Way (off Warspite Road) Woolwich, London SE18 5NR
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- No Format Gallery
“We don’t repeat because we repress, we repress because we repeat.”
Gilles Deleuze
Sometimes we become trapped in a recursive struggle with our history – reliving a past, which cannot be relived, trying to forge a future that will not be determined. But it is this very act of contemplating a history, which brings the self into being. Curator and artist, Jane Boyer, presents an exhibition at No Format Gallery, which looks at this act of contemplating a personal history.
Invited to curate by exhibiting artist, Hitomi Kammai, Boyer has pulled together five artists whose work shows visible evidence of this thought process. Interestingly, the works in the show are not necessarily about this subject, but they’ve been chosen because the background thoughts of the artists are visible in the work. “This presents an unusual premise for an exhibition, in that, the show is not about the work or the artists primarily, but about the underlying thoughts of the artists which are present in their artworks, thoughts that go beyond decision-making to thoughts of self-contemplation, ” says Boyer.
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be two discussion events. Dr. Angela Fell, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapist with extensive experience working with artists, will discuss how past experience pushes its way into the present. Also an artists/curator discussion will explore the works on view and some of the experiences involved in making them. In addition to these discussions, our media sponsor Art Pie organised an open call, the entrants will be presented in a grid formation within the exhibition. This call was for A5 sized works on the theme of ‘Repetition’.
