Exhibition
Estrangement
21 Apr 2010 – 5 Jun 2010
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 63 Penfold Street
- London NW8
- London
- NW8 8PQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Numerous buses from central London stop on the Edgware Road within a few minutes walk of the space, including the 6, 16, 98, 332 and 414.
- The Showroom is a short walk from Edgware Road underground station, which is served by the Hammersmith and City, Circle and Bakerloo lines.
- Edgware Road Tube for Bakerloo, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines
About
Estrangement is an ongoing project initiated by Polish curator and artistic director of Wyspa Institute of Art, Aneta Szylak, and Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K. Estrangement is a curatorial and educational enterprise outside of one's familiar context or within the context to which one does not belong.Involving artists from both Europe and the Middle East through international residencies, research and projects, Estrangement seeks ways to rethink cultures of representation as well as create a space for intimate and individual encounters. Estrangement is a proposal situated in improvised space where a minuscule series of affects, may they be epiphanies or frustrations, is made possible. At The Showroom, Estrangement presents works and contextual material gathered from its earlier incarnations, alongside two new commissions by Hiwa K and Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska following their residencies in the Church Street neighbourhood and Edgware Road areas.
Hiwa K is collaborating with Jim White, a former American soldier and now a caretaker at a German art academy, on a live ten-minute performance simulating Ennio Morricone's score for the final duel scene of Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western Once Upon A Time In The West. The work is an enquiry into the redistribution of dominant cultural representations and competences. Hiwa K and Jim White ' who was taught to play country guitar music by the artist - will perform the work with Zone One Brass at the Cockpit Theatre on 20 April 2010, 8pm.
Rajkowska's project refers to the history of Edgware Road as an ancient thoroughfare and since XIX century a place where migrants from Middle East settle. Her proposal is a vehicle: a chariot, decorated in collaboration with the Edgware Road community, which will be driven in the streets surrounding the gallery on 20 April 2010, 12-2pm. Chariots are refined ancient war machines that originated from Central Asia but were in use longest in Britain. The piece explores the Middle Eastern origins of this vehicle whilst considering ideas of destination, arrival and circulation of cultural forms.
Works by Rozhgar Mahmud Mustafa, Sherko Abbas, Shirwan Fatih, Shirwan Can, Diary Muhammad Osman, Poshya Kakil, Gaylan Abdulla Ismahel, Mattias Olofsson, Knutte Wester, Maryam Jafri, Anton Katz, Nehro Shauki, Hüseyin Karakaya and Hardi Kurda will also be presented in the gallery. A single issue publication designed by Abäke with Jackson Lim with contributions by some the artists and the curators as well as Irit Rogoff, Francesca Recchia, Cihat Arinc and Janna Graham will further develop the themes, as will a panel discussion between Aneta Szylak, Hiwa K, Cihat Arinc and Janna Graham on 22 April 2010, 6.30pm.
