Unstable Monuments 2016 – Truro
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Curated by Matthew Benington, Jesse Leroy Smith and Sam Bassett
Funded by the Arts Council England. The Old Bakery Studios, Truro, UK
14 artists from London, Germany, Denmark and Cornwall whose practice employs painting, installation, quilt making, film, shoemaking, posters and print. An immersive transformation of an ex-industrial warehouse sees these artists exploring dissolution and change within society’s structures and touchstones with reference to faith, gender, architecture, migration, anthropology, family, dance and ritual.
A monument can be seen as an inflexible state of mind. How might we realise more fluid and appropriate ways to commemorate what we value and admire.
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Details:
1. ‘Unstable Monuments’ Film Documentation by Roger Thorp, Music by ‘Death By Pharmacy
2. ‘Hide’ by Matthew Benington
3. ‘Tell Me’ Truro Projection film by Marianne Keating. From Secrets collected from postboxes left across the city
4. ‘Mathair’ by Kathryn Ferguson front and in back ‘Al Anon’ Painting by Jesse Leroy Smith
5. ‘Rear guard’ Video by Kathryn Ferguson
6. ‘The Jazzroom’ by Dick Jewell Super 8mm 1987
7. ‘Mother Morphine’ Part of Painting 7 x 6 ft by Jesse Leroy Smith
8. ‘Mathair’ still on film by Kathryn Ferguson
9. ‘Serving the People’ by Jesse Leroy Smith
10. ‘Comforts’ on walls by Robin Monies and ‘Continual Growth’ Floor Sculpture by Jack Davis
11. Talk by Curator Matthew Benington in front of Joe Drakeford ‘Liquid Landscape 1’
12. ‘Blood to Dust’ Video projection’ by Jesse Leroy Smith and Roger Thorp
13. ‘Gold Room’ by Sam Bassett
14. ‘From wood and leather boats to gossip and boobs’ by Sam Bassett in front and behind ‘Stealth and days’ video by Bernhard Holaschke
15. ‘Liquid landscape’ sculpture by Joe Drakeford front and behind Dick Jewell ‘The Jazzroom’ Super 8mm 1987
16. ‘Blood to Dust’ video Projection by Jesse Leroy Smith and Roger Thorp
17. ‘Requiem room’ Paintings by Jesse Leroy Smith
18. ‘Mother Morphine’ detail painting by Jesse Leroy Smith
19. ‘Untitled’ by Andreas Gloel
20. ‘Mathair’ by Kathryn Ferguson, Video
21. Exhibiting artist Jack Davis at entrance to ‘Unstable Monuments, Old Bakery Factory
22. Poster by Matthew Benington
