Semes Spatial

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13th — 23rd June 2013 Opening reception: Wednesday 12th June 2013, 6.00 - 9.00pm Artists film evening: Friday 21st June 2013, 7pm. Screening / Metronome Edit by Tom Camm exploiting a metronomes capacity to dictate and disrupt video Nine artists, currently studying at CSM, London, will take up residence in the gallery for seven days. The resulting exhibition exposes the process of ‘confined creativity' as the artists work within the limits of both the architecture and the same oxygen supply. Responding to a new environment which is both familiar in its ubiquitous art whitewash, while altogether alien in its minutiae, the collective response could expand in numerous directions, but exploring the volume and detailed parameters of the rooms and the intangible presence of history, allows a forensic examination of both the signature of place, and the room as subject. A seme: being the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics and referring to a single characteristic of a sememe, serves as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.? Semes Spatial will present new works including video, reprographics, installation works and sculpture, produced on site and in direct response to both the interior architecture of Campbell Works and its immediate surroundings.