An RCA Research Platform group show curated by Melanie King, Félicie Kertudo and Laura Vallés-Vilchez.
Artists: Armelle Skatulski // Caroline Douglas // Felicie Kertudo // Flora Bowden // Melanie King // Maria Gafarova // Nicholas Middleton // Olivier Richon // Rowan Whybrew // Ruidi Mu // Wayne Binitie.
Lumen Studios Bethnal Green, London, January 2018.
Private View: 26th January 7-9pm, exhibition continues 27th-28th January, 12-5pm
Lumen Studios, The Crypt, St John, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA
From the press release:
Contemporary art and also literature have a predilection for documents of all sorts: photographic records, archives, official pieces of paper. Documents provide information but also trigger a poetics of cool memories as well as a form of fiction. This group show curated by Melanie King, Félicie Kertudo and Laura Vallés reflects on the tensions between the representable and the un-representable, celebrates the artifice of image-making, and explores how environments shape and are shaped by inhabitants and events. It also emerges from the RCA’s homonymous research group and considers works from disciplines outside of art, such as ethnography and urbanism. The document is non subjective or expressive, and yet it does not succeed in being objective either. It is in the sense of an objective fiction that artists endeavour to expand, discuss and practice a poetics of the document that call into question received ideas, and hopefully produce new ones.
Image: Armelle Skatulski.