- Venue
- Transition Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, May 4, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, May 27, 2012
- Address
- Transition Gallery, Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8 4QN
- Location
- London
Alice Anderson, Kirsty Buchanan, Annabel Dover, Georgie Flood, Andrea Hannon, Paul Kindersley, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Alli Sharma, Corinna Spencer, Mark Scott Wood, Jessica Voorsanger. Seleced by Corinna Spencer. You are an obsession, you’re my obsession……Tainted Love is a day-dreamingly, dark installation questioning what it means to desire, cherish, seek, long, admire, envy, celebrate, protect or destroy. These desires for desire inform aspects of how we make sense of the world, in relation to mass media, and in relation to our historical, social and cultural locations to create meaning in our everyday lives where the traditional bonds of race, religion and ethnicity are increasingly diminished and where fantasy functions as an empty surface for the projection of our desires. Ranging from simple groups of paintings to more elaborate devotional structures, each dedicated to what Proust claimed was ‘the only successful (sustainable) love’… unrequited. From cabinets of transgression to intimate shrines the Tainted Love artists attempt to come closer to an object of desire, that eludes our grasp, no matter what we do to attain it. Supported by ACE grants for the arts
