Exhibition
Gillian Wearing. A Room With Your Views
30 Apr 2016 – 29 May 2016
Event times
10AM-5PM
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 58-67 Grand Parade
- Brighton
United Kingdom - BN2 0JY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/maps/brighton-maps/grand-parade-campus.aspx
- NA
- Short walk from Brighton Station
Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing’s ‘A Room With Your Views’ commissioned by and to be premiered at HOUSE and Brighton Festival 2016
About
HOUSE is the contemporary visual arts festival, taking place every May as part of the festival season in Brighton & Hove, this year, the 8th festival, running from 30 April to 29 May across the city.
Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing, OBE, is 2016’s HOUSE Invited Artist and brings to Brighton & Hove the world premiere of ‘Your Views’, one of the largest collaborative film projects ever to be produced.
‘A Room With Your Views’, by Gillian Wearing, will be a video installation and exhibition premiering ‘Your Views’, which takes place in Brighton University Galleries and is the artist’s first solo exhibition on the South Coast of England.
‘A Room With Your Views’, co-commissioned by HOUSE, with Brighton Festival, for the festival’s 50th anniversary year, invites anyone around the world to film a short clip of either their curtains or blinds opening to reveal a view from their window. Like the curtains going up at the beginning of a stage play, each view is a pictorial unveiling of a landscape, cityscape or even a brick wall.
The film asks for contributions to be uploaded to www.yourviews.org. It is hoped that Brighton & Hove residents will feel compelled to send their own films to the project as well as participants from far further afield.
Gillian Wearing, commented, “It feels personal in the way that each person has approached the instructions to the film and universal as it unites the world in the harmonious gesture of opening the curtains, blinds or shutters to give us a glimpse of their views. I am delighted by this opportunity to present ‘A Room With Your Views’ to the HOUSE and Brighton Festival audience and hopefully the work will include some local participant’s films too.”
Gillian Wearing (b. Birmingham, 1963) explores our public personas and private lives. She describes her working method as ‘editing life’. Using photography and video to record people’s confessions, her work explores disparities between individual and collective experience, drawing on flyonthewall documentaries, reality TV and techniques of theatre, to explore how we present ourselves to the world. Wearing won the 1997 Turner Prize, is an OBE and Royal Academician, and has exhibited extensively internationally.