Jeremy Hutchison, The Ryder, London
The latest video work from Jeremy Hutchison, produced while on residency with Delfina Foundation, is on show at an intriguing space on Herald Street in East London. Concealed behind an industrial shutter, the Ryder presents Monster, an exploration into the operations of a peanut factory in the Middle East. With a particular focus on the challenge of technological automation on human existence, the premise is simple: as robots disrupt one industry after another, human wage labour is becoming increasingly obsolete. But is this as liberating as it might seem?
Until 30 September 2016. www.theryderprojects.com
Lines of Thought, Poole Museum, Poole
This bumper touring exhibition features drawings pulled from the British Museum collection. A host of high-profile names including masters such as Leonardo, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Picasso and Michelangelo are on show, alongside contemporary artists such as Bridget Riley. After its Poole launch the exhibition will move northwards to Hull and eventually onto Belfast.
Until 6 October 2016. www.poolemuseum.co.uk
Nicolas Party, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
For this solo show, Brussels-based artist Nicolas Party has transformed the Modern Institute’s Aird’s Lane space into an interior populated with temporary walls and murals. This creates a kind of faux-classical setting in which to show his new body of pastels on canvas. Party uses a range of materials including gold leaf, charcoal and acrylic, with his work acting almost as a snapshot of a long tradition of portraits, landscapes and still lives.
Until 29 October 2016. www.themoderninstitute.com
Carole Griffiths and Paula Chambers, The Bowery, Leeds
This show features two artists who offer a rather different take on domesticity. Carole Griffiths remakes and rearranges inanimate domestic objects to become metaphors for how we relate to one another as couples. In addition, Paula Chambers has created a barricade from the ‘feminine clutter of home’. Worn and disused furniture has been assembled in the gallery space, manned by dozens of paper and plywood cut-outs of women with guns. Women’s traditional role as home-keeper has been well and truly revised.
Until 21 October 2016. www.thebowery.org
The Colony, the Electric Theatre, London
This commission by Artangel – a new film installation by Vietnamese artist and filmmaker Dinh Q. Lê – explores the desolate environment of the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru. Once amongst the most prized and contested places in the world, mainly due to the mountains of guano that built up over centuries, British merchants controlled the trade using bonded Chinese labour working under brutal conditions. Lê’s three-screen film installation, accompanied by composer Daniel Kramer’s apocalyptic soundtrack, plunges the viewer into the bleak landscape, with sequences of animation showing the ghosts of Chinese workers in some of the abandoned buildings on the islands.
Until 9 October 2016. www.artangel.org.uk
Images:
1. Jeremy Hutchison, Monster (video still), 2016. © Jeremy Hutchison
2. Rembrandt (Black chalk and charcoal on paper, an Asian elephant c.1637). © Trustees of the British Museum
3. Nicolas Party, Three Cats
4. Paula Chambers, Domestic Front
5. Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony
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