Exhibition
Calm before storm
8 Feb 2017 – 4 Mar 2017
Event times
Wednesday-Saturday
12-6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 2 Clunbury Str
- N1 6TT
- London
- N1 6TT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses 141, 21, 271, 76 and N76 stop in New North Rd (Mintern Str) and 394 directly by the gallery.
- Tube Old Street or Hoxton
- Old Street / Hoxton
About
waterside contemporary is pleased to present Calm before storm, with Hans Rosenström, Nikita Kadan, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Marinella Senatore, anonymous, Kamen Stoyanov, Mounira Al Solh, Oreet Ashery, Iván Argote, Nick Hornby, Núria Güell, Nicoline van Harskamp, and Marianna Christofides.
Between more substantial projects that are more emblematic of his practice, Hans Rosenström has been passing time by drawing storm clouds, and elsewhere composing the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the now scarce Letraset. The two works by Rosenström are presented in the gallery unfinished, their making interrupted by the exhibition, and perhaps by weather, or political events.
Rosenström’s artistic practice combines site-specific, spatial installations with sound, text, light and constructed elements. Questioning the place of the viewer in his installations, Rosenström sees their presence as pivotal for the existence of the work and only then an allowing for a psychological and physical experience within a specific moment or space can exist. This exploration of our physical surroundings provokes an emotional response, addressing and contemplating issues of isolation, group cohesion, privacy and spectatorship.