Party Time Recommends:

The Parallax Curtain

28 September - 17 November

S1 Artspace,

120 Trafalgar Street,

Sheffield,

S1 4JT

The Parallax Curtain brings together newly commissioned and existing works including sculpture, painting, performance and video, by three British-based artists, Melissa Gordon, Emily Musgrave and Jessica Warboys.

The title of the exhibition references both a former work by Melissa Gordon [Parallax Curtain, 2006] and the publication The Parallax View [2006] by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. A parallax effect describes the phenomena whereby the world and objects around us appear displaced, unfamiliar or changed when viewed from a different position. It is a way of looking from two lines of sight or two opposing points of view - both literally and philosophically. A form of expanded perception, a parallax reveals multiple perspectives in continual flux which in turn create limitless layers of meaning. This concept is invoked by Žižek in The Parallax View and is an approach present in the individual practices of the three artists in this exhibition.

The Parallax Curtain draws together these ideas through the presented works, which, due to each artists’ multiplied approach, share a sense of re-appropriation, renewal and re-presentation. Through extensive research, obsessive cataloguing and process itself, the artists presented in The Parallax Curtain mine the past for forgotten histories and real world events; historical figures; discarded objects with their own silent history; or fictions to retell. Through this process - in addition to a constant editing, collage and layering - resulting works subtlety re-perform these various narratives.

Collectively, the works offer an examination deep within these rediscovered subjects and the promise of revelation, or a drawing back of the curtain. However almost simultaneously, the work implies something hidden, disguised or obscured from view, and any final resolution is playfully deferred. The Parallax Curtain points to theatricality, staging and performance, techniques central to the individual practices of the artists in this exhibition. For Musgrave it is the work that performs, Gordon however invites the viewer to perform with the work, and for Warboys the process of making records a series of performative gestures to be edited within the space they are shown.

Party Time Recommends:

MAY IT KEEP THE WOLVES IN THE HILLS AND THE WOMEN IN OUR BEDS

a collision of interests selected by Ryan Gander

21st September 2012 – 5th October

Preview 21st Sept 6-9pm

Exhibition open:

Wednesday and Saturday 12pm – 6pm

Thursday and Friday 5– 8pm

And by appointment

Mexico,

25 Wharf Street,

Leeds,

LS2 7EQ

Mexico presents May it keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds, a collision of interests selected by Ryan Gander. 

This exhibition brings together recent works by Jacqueline Bebb, Rob Lye, John Newton and Lucia Quevedo to exist in the same space at the same time.

The variety of narratives implied in the work fuels the production of new meaning. May it keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds realises the necessity for contradiction, friction and difference to develop between works; artists, objects and space produce a crucial foreignness through familiarity.

A four-leaf poster publication will provide a distillation of the exhibition in hard copy, including additional artwork by each artist and an interview between Ryan Gander and Mexico.

www.m-e-x-i-c-o.co.uk

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Two Minutes To Midnight

11 – 26 October

Preview: 11 October 7-9pm

Here Gallery

108 Stokes Croft

Bristol

BS1 3RU

Here Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by emerging contemporary artist Zanne Andrea. Andrea will present a new installation of work incorporating a variety of sculptural objects and images made from fabric, digital print, collage, found materials, and wall projections. She will create the installation using an active process of assemblage, layering and editing her selections to reveal connections and construct narratives, intentionally highlighting the theatricality of both objects and gallery.

In Two Minutes to Midnight Zanne Andrea addresses the notion of a nearing Doomsday, an apocalyptic countdown to unimaginable catastrophic events. A starting point for this exhibition is The Doomsday Clock, used by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since 1947 to measure how close the human race is to destroying the world. This idea of a figurative midnight mirrors much of the anxiety felt during the atomic age and the Cold War, but is also relevant to the more recent anxiety of living in a post 9/11 world with terrorism threats, economies on the brink of collapse, uprisings, protests, world disasters and nuclear meltdowns.

Two Minutes to Midnight coincides exactly with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a nearly catastrophic nuclear standoff that lasted 13 days between the Soviet Union and The USA, which occurred in October 1962. This exhibition also happens in the months preceding what is known as the end of the Mayan calendar, 21 December 2012, and to some has become yet another predictive date of destruction and/or renewal of the human race.

www.thingsfromhere.co.uk

www.zanneandrea.com