- Venue
- Thames-Side Studios Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, May 19, 2018
- Ends
- Sunday, May 27, 2018
- Address
- Harrington Way, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich London SE18 5NR.
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Jim Cheatle
“Our relationship with the screen and the interface isn’t simply a visual one, it has changed from being a tool that we used at our leisure, to a necessary conduit for social interaction, pavlovian in its schema and invisible in its ubiquity, the screen is the threshold of our dematerialised condition.”
Painting takes its place in the world alongside and within this dominant way of seeing, reconfiguring our relationship and understanding to what is ‘real’ and tactile. Does this environment create an underlying pressure for artists to make work that is more screenable, quicker to apprehend, less concerned with scale and depth? Or, does it reinvigorate the ‘real’ and the haptic? Can we view work with the same engagement as before, can we still ‘look’ at it in the same way?
The artists selected here aren’t necessarily directly concerned with digital dialogues or dematerialisation, however they all have a vested interest in surface and materiality. This exhibition attempts to draw attention to this interest and contextualise it within these broader ideas.
