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| FLUE, Sarah Sparkes, installation, 2015 |
VOID
21st June - 11th July
Address: St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, E2 9PA
// ARTISTS //
Louise Beer
Jane Grisewood
Rebecca Huxley
Melanie King
Joshua Space
Sarah Sparkes
Lumen Studios present an exhibition exploring the representation of black holes, voids and portals.
Opening Party: SOLSTICE, 21st June 2016, 6pm
With
talk from Chris Welch, Professor of Space Engineering at the
International Space University in Strasbourg, France, where he is also
Director of Masters Programs. Chris will be speaking about the
representation of black holes and voids in space physics and science
fiction.
We'll also be screening Sarah Sparkes film, Time You Need and DJ set by CAETVS
Opening Times:
Saturday 25 June and Sunday 26 June, 1-5pm
Saturday 2nd July and Sunday 3 July, 1-5pm
Closing Party: FIRST THURSDAY, 7 July 2016, 6pm
Look Mum No Computer Modular Synth Set
http://zibrazibrazibra.com/look-mum-no-computer/
Sarah Sparkes will present a series of works exploring infinities, the void and it's intrusion into the domestic and everyday. FLUE
was originally created for a hollowed out space, once a fireplace, for
Other Rooms exhibition in Basement Arts Project Space, Leeds. For VOID
exhibition, the artists has rebuilt the work within a dark recess below a
cupboard in the Belfry of St John's.
Sarah will also be screening her film Time You Need (winner of the MERU Art*Science award 2015) on the VOID opening night, which explores
the potential for consciousness to time-travel within the material
limits of the human body. Using the symbolism of the portal and black
hole, as they are conceptualised in both science, science fiction and
the artists own work, the film presents a montage of narratives and
documentation of performances and installations, which together with
sonic and visual disruptions, create a liminal experience for the
spectator. The proposition is that one may find, herein, the time one
needs.
Jane Grisewood's Black on Black
series explores darkness, blackness – the void – through different
black paints on black paper. She will also be exhibiting Black Hole
photographs, a typology of voids found in numerous locations around the
world. Grisewood, born and
educated in New Zealand, worked as an editor/publisher in London and New
York before studying fine art. She was awarded her PhD in 2010 at
Central Saint Martins, UAL where she teaches experimental drawing, and
has artist books in many collections, including Tate, V&A, MoMA,
MACBA, Brooklyn Museum and Yale. Working
across media, she investigates time and transience through the line,
repetition and durational processes, where drawing is key. Recent work
is inspired by boundaries between earth-bound and cosmic temporalities,
invisible and visible, black holes and cosmic web.
Melanie King's
current research considers how invisible forces are represented in the
field of both art and science. Melanie will present a series of
experimental films exploring the bubble and its' relationship to
cosmological theories such as the multiverse and inflation theory.
Melanie will be showing a series of cameraless photography prints,
directing light onto photosensitive paper to create void-like
impressions.
