Exhibition

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW: Exhibit A

13 Apr 2012 – 12 May 2012

Event times

10am-6pm / Wednesday-Saturday

Cost of entry

FREE

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Bearspace

London, United Kingdom

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Travel Information

  • 47, 53, 177, 180, 199, 255, 453
  • Canada Water
  • Deptford Train Station/New Cross Train Station/Deptford Bridge DLR/Cutty Sark DLR
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About

Lawrence Oates, who perished during the Terra Nova Arctic Expedition to collect Emperor Penguin eggs of 1910—1913. Dubbed the ‘Worst Journey In The World', the party of six Englishmen were stranded for 21 months as ships could not reach them, and forced them to shelter from the brutal Antarctic winter in a cave dug into the snow. EXHIBIT A takes this phrase as a jumping point - artists imagine desolate landscapes, isolation, and futuristic visions after the apocalypse through their individual practices. Dermott Punnet and Jayne A Smith paint lush, neo-modernist scenes which span between the utopic and distopic, while Talar Aghbashian's sci-fi inspired paintings com found imagery with painterly intimacy spanning optimism and pessimism. Rebecca Ackroyd and Thomas Adam utilise graphite and traditional drawing skills to enact the suspense and terror of the last living man, and Gabo Guzzo's sound piece sets a score to the scene: the quiet murmur of an abandoned vista.

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