Exhibition
Chimera Q.T.E
15 Nov 2012 – 17 Jan 2013
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 258 Cambridge Heath Road
- London
- e2 9da
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- bus lines: 26, 48, 55, 106, 236, 254, 277, 388
- Bethnal Green station
- Cambridge Heath Road station
group exhibition curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
About
participating artists: Cornelia Baltes, Nicolas Deshayes, Adham Faramawy, Jack Lavender, Berry Patten, Sabrina Ratté, Travess Smalley, Oliver Sutherland
According to Greek mythology, the Chimera was a monstrous fire-breathing female creature composed of the parts of three animals: a lion, a serpent and a goat. In popular culture the term has been used to describe any fictional being composed by different parts as well as to describe illusory ideas and actions.
The Chimera is an early version of the ancient myth of the hero and the dragon, with its defining attributes changing through time. Taking inspiration from the creature's composed physicality and fictional being, the show reflects on new forms of abstraction and intangibility derived from the assemblage of different styles and materials often associated with the internet and its context of visual and narrative fragmentation.The presented works mix personal visions and popular culture with digital aesthetics, aiming to reproduce heterogeneous feelings and an interpretative contingency. Extreme diversity and the tendency to inspire atmosphere via the use of apparently distant tools and references are the point of departure to create a fictional sense of transcendence and fluidity. The selected works and theoretical contributions included in the exhibition aim to operate as activators, inviting the viewer to participate in the construction of meaning whilst also initiating alter relationships between media's attributions and works' narratives.
This exhibition celebrates cacophony and material-crossing whilst floating between physicality and significance, to consider alternative forms of artistic expression looking at a context-based sensoriality as opposed to direct representation.
A series of events will accompany the exhibition throughout December