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England's Creative Coast: Andreas Angelidakis - 'Seawall'

29 May 2021 – 12 Nov 2021

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Hastings Contemporary

Hastings
England, United Kingdom

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England’s Creative Coast is a landmark project between seven outstanding arts organisations to create a new outdoor cultural experience that connects art with landscape and local stories with global perspectives.

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‘Seawall’ by Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis occupies the courtyard space outside Hastings Contemporary. Resembling the concrete accropode structures designed to resist the action of waves on coastal locations, up close the blocks reveal themselves to be reconfigurable soft sculptures. Softening what at first appears hard, the artwork queers the idea of the seawall, playing with expectations and prompting questions while swerving any rigid definitions. 

“We are living in a moment of unsure transitions, from what we used to know the world to be, towards an unpredictable future. This uncertainty manifests itself on many scales. We are migrants and we don't know if we will reach our destination, we are consumers inside a failed economic system, we are workers trapped in political systems that continue to look out for the well-being of the powerful. Finally, we are humans whose way of life is destroying our home, as well as the home to every other living creature. Standing on a beach, like Hastings, is the perfect spot to look out to what the future brings, to look out to the horizon.” 
— Andreas Angelidakis

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Tamsin Dillon

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Andreas Angelidakis

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