Exhibition
Hannah Black. Some Context
15 Sep 2017 – 10 Dec 2017
Address
- 64 Chisenhale Road
- London
- E3 5QZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Mile End / Bethnal Green
Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission and the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Hannah Black.
About
Some Context is structured around 20,000 copies of The Situation, a book made up of transcribed, edited and censored conversations between the artist and friends about ‘the situation’. This theme is interpreted differently in each conversation. The books provide the stuffing – in shredded form – for the ‘transitional objects’ also displayed in the space, and will be shredded at the end of the exhibition.In this new body of work Black continues to develop her enquiry into the production of, and the gaps between, practices and theories of subjectivity and collectivity. Some Context gestures towards the various potential uses of art’s uselessness – as comfort, as worship, as text and as archive.
As part of the commissioning process, a programme of events has been devised in collaboration with Hannah Black. This includes a series of conversations in which participants have been invited to discuss a situation of their choice.