Living London: Gerry Fox

About

For his first major solo exhibition, Gerry Fox will present Living London, a single work made up of a series of synchronised multiple screen film installations inspired by London. In the space of 30 minutes the work will take the viewer on a series of journeys through life, through London and through the restored Methodist Chapel of 176.

Fox's work presents a portrait of London and evokes the physical sensation of being immersed in a city's ever changing environment. Living London imparts differing scenes of London life, from the city's historic and contemporary sites to dizzying portrayals of every-day occurrences.

Drawing on a wealth of filmmaking experience, Fox uses his advanced technical skills to offer a fresh perspective on the notion of a city and its inhabitants. These new films, shot from point-of-view perspective with a wide-angle lens, combine both new and archival footage. Fox makes tangible films power to evoke the spatial and temporal sensations experienced in dreams, in particular kinà¦sthesia and the physiological perception of movement through space. In Living London, the city engulfs the Flà¢neur.

During his residency at 176 Fox has been working with a group of young people to make an additional work for the exhibtion. The young people, based at Castlehaven Youth Project and Camden Detached Youth Project, are working alongside Fox and his production team learning how to use a Super 16mm film camera and get the opportunity to direct, shoot and edit a film for inclusion in Living London.

Gerry Fox, born 1963, lives and works in London. Fox studied visual arts at Harvard University and is a BAFTA award winning documentary maker and has made some of the most celebrated films about contemporary artists of recent years, primarily for The South Bank Show.

The 176 programme is based on creative exhibition focused residencies for one artist and one curator a year. Gerry Fox's show is the first of the artist's residencies at 176, it will be followed by a curatorial project in May 2008 by Vincent Honoré, a Paris based independent curator.

Living London also includes works from the Zabludowicz Collection by artists including Alexander Heim, Chris Gilmour, Frank Auerbach, Gavin Turk, Gillian Wearing, Jules de Balincourt, Lei Xue, Mark Leckey, Mauricio Guillen, Michael Landy, Paul Johnson, Richard Hughes and Richard Wentworth.

A limited edition artist's book will be produced for the exhibition, publication contributors include; Marc Quinn, Will Self, Flora Fairbairn and Gerry Fox.