Exhibition
Anthony Shapland: A Sound Not Meant To Be Heard
22 Nov 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Address
- Exeter Phoenix, Bradnich Place
- Gandy Street
- Exeter
- EX4 3LS
- United Kingdom
A solo exhibition by Cardiff based artist Anthony Shapland that combines film, photography, audio, objects and printed text.
About
A solo exhibition by Cardiff based artist Anthony Shapland that combines film, photography, audio, objects and printed text. Shapland has a fascination with the act of viewing and reviewing film, and how we can build fictions through the editing of documentary footage. Here, using sound, silence and speech, believable illusions and oblique narratives, he seeks out the gaps between what is seen and said, heard and understood.
Autobiographical references are woven into the works in this exhibition; filmed in the area where the artist grew up and drawing on relationships and family. They make reference to a world that was only just starting to shift its social, legal and moral attitudes toward gay men, which meant that life had to be lived in two parts, performed. Nothing was what it seemed on the surface, and the desire to ‘not stand out’, even after ‘coming out’, has had a lasting impact. His practice is filled with references to stage and backstage, to a performance of life, which adds to a sense that the world is constructed in the same way as a film set, constantly evolving and always temporary.