Exhibition
Pursuit of fiction
18 Jan 2008 – 23 Feb 2008
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 17a Electric Lane
- London
- SW9 8LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Brixton
Pursuit of fiction
About
Kathrin Kur's images concentrate on the boundaries between familiarity and privacy, and the making public of covert technologies. Pursuit of Fiction documents television and cinema production spaces, which produce so much of our collective reality. Their centrality to the networks of the news and entertainment industries is however, at once obvious and surprising. Kur's photographs present the apparatus, facilities and machinery of stage sets; their intrinsic strangeness and 'separate reality'. By focusing on the jamais-vu of these locations, rather than their products ' the fictions which have become so commonplace ' the images reveal an unreal constructed world.
We are no longer astonished by the spectacles greeting us as we scan the television channels; whether reportage or drama and in whatever country we find ourselves viewers. Yet the fabrication of this imagery ' its mediation or construction of a reality in complete accord with our expectations - is completely foreign. Despite the attempts, especially of reality shows, to feature more and more their own means of production, we are increasingly unable to reconcile the actual circumstances of filming with what we consume, precisely because of the necessities of the spaces that Kur presents.
Kathrin Kur (born in Germany 1975) studied in visual arts at UDK Berlin and Brighton University and received an MA in Critical Theory from Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a member of art collective 'flunk' and was a curator of the International Media Architecture 2007 conference.