Event
Stop Play Record: Luke Willis Thompson is joined by the Mile End Community...
09 Aug 2017
Chisenhale Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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Luke Willis Thompson, Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries (Graeme) (still) 2016. Commissioned by IMA Brisbane, supported by Creative New Zealand. Produced in association with Chisenhale Gallery and Create, London.
Exhibition
Luke Willis Thompson. Autoportrait
23 Jun 2017 – 27 Aug 2017
Address
- 64 Chisenhale Road
- London
- E3 5QZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Mile End / Bethnal Green
Event map
Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission and the first solo exhibition in the UK by Luke Willis Thompson.
About
For his exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, Thompson presents a portrait of Diamond Reynolds. In July 2016, Reynolds broadcast, via Facebook Live, the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her partner Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic-stop in Minnesota, United States. Reynolds’ video circulated widely online and amassed over six million views.In November 2016, with the assistance of Chisenhale Gallery, Thompson established a conversation with Reynolds, and her lawyer, and invited Reynolds to work with him on the production of an artwork. Thompson proposed to make an aesthetic response that could act as a ‘sister-image’ to Reynolds’ video broadcast. Thompson and Reynolds agreed to produce a film together, to be presented in London, and which would break with the well-known image of Reynolds, caught in a moment of violence and distributed within a constant flow of news.
The final work was produced in April 2017. It is a silent portrait of Reynolds shot on 35mm, black and white film and will be presented in the gallery as a single screen work.
Luke Willis Thompson's exhibition continues our programme for 2017-18, which includes major new commissions by artists Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Maeve Brennan and Hannah Black. Through his work, Thompson raises questions around race, representation and the body as site of political enquiry, themes which recur throughout Chisenhale’s programme for 2017.
