The City & The Stars

About

Emma Kay (London), Rut Blees Luxemburg (Baden, Germany) and Craig Mulholland (Glasgow)

Curated by Louisa Adam

Alluding to Arthur C. Clarke's novel The City and The Stars, this exhibition stimulates us to consider afresh beliefs and knowledge from which we generate meaning, and encourages us to reflect upon and explore society and the spaces we inhabit.

The World From Memory and The Future From Memory are used humorously by Emma Kay to play out a recognisably human and inevitably unreliable narrative, challenging how we employ our memories as a source for reference. Craig Mulholland's works from his series Grandes et Petites Machines animate freestanding instruments, reflecting upon the extent to which regulation is perceivable in even the smallest details of everyday life. Rut Blees Luxemburg has made large-scale photographic works which disclose and illuminate possibilities and experiences within our cities and plays with the extent to which we are conditioned in reading images.

Stills will launch its new Film Lounge programme in June 2010 to present a selection of Artists' films which explore ideas of faith and knowledge within The City and the Stars exhibition.