Exhibition
In Order For It To Change
24 Sep 2021 – 19 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 130 Vicar Lane
- Leeds
England - LS2 7NL
- United Kingdom
In Order For It To Change is a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Peter Spanjer at SCREW Gallery in Leeds.
About
In Order For It To Change is a new installation by Peter Spanjer (b.1994, Germany) inviting viewers to embrace vulnerability in a world that’s increasingly hostile towards it. The work acts as an attempt to reconcile oneself with perpetual motion, accepting a need for stillness and advocating for value in reflection. In order for it to change, you’ve got to surrender. Hope for a brighter future comes with inevitable darkness, but those lower moments act as fertile ground for growth.
The viewer navigates the installation through three glowing screens installed in blackout boxes, floating in space. Positioned at alternating heights, force the viewer to navigate throughout the space, identifying the relationship between the images playing across the three panels as they shift between representations of absolute hope and absolute hopelessness. The accompanying audio contextualization video collages within a contemporary language of transcendence, value and surrender beyond the self.
Peter Spanjer (B. 1994, Germany) currently lives and works in London, UK. Peter graduated with a BA degree in Fashion Promotion from the University for the Creative Arts, UK in 2015 and he is currently studying for a MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, UK. His work is often framed around but not limited to the idea of resistance; resisting the emotional stereotypes put on black men; resisting the need to perform his blackness to others and thereby allowing room for self-exploration which he extends to an audience as a piece of visual art.
