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SHIT SHOW / An exhibition about exhibitions

Preview / Friday 24th February 6 - 8pm

General / 25th February - 24th March

(Open Fridays 12 - 6pm or by appointment only)

‘"Get out of the Horse" Colin de Land used to say to artists who claimed to criticise from within - but you get out today and you are still in a bigger horse, the whole of Troy is a horse.’ Merlin Carpenter.

Most contemporary artists are familiar with the cycle of one group show after another in the seemingly endless number of underfunded, leaking, artist led spaces that have crept rhizomatically into every provincial town and run down London suburb. Always optimistic that something more rewarding will happen, that somehow it will all be worthwhile, the solo show will follow, the über curator will take notice, or the mega dealer will snap you up, the artist cheerfully plays the game. Then, when it does come, the creeping realisation that still no one is actually looking begins to ache and the artist has no choice but to turn their critical gaze back upon the very world that they inhabit. Shit Show brings the understanding of what an art exhibition is, does, and how, to the forefront of the exhibition content itself, intervening in the space of the exhibition as authentic experience through a questioning of its very fabric.

Participating artists:

George Barber, BAZ, Sophie Lisa Beresford, Helen Brown, Noel Clueit, Dave Evans, Toby Huddlestone, David Mackintosh, Keith MacIsaac, David Osbaldeston, Rebecca Sitar, Matthew Stock, Bedwyr Williams

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