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The Distinct Sound of Laughter In The Distance
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Exhibition
The Distinct Sound of Laughter In The Distance - by Dont Fret and Edwin
11 Nov 2016 – 2 Dec 2016
Event times
Monday to Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The Yard
- Yorkton Street (off Hackney Road)
- London
England - E2 8NH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 26, 48, 55
- Old Street, Bethnal Green
- Hoxton Overground, Camridge Heath
Edwin and Dont Fret prove that distance is no barrier for two young artists with a penchant for social activism and late nights with buckets of paint. Over the past year, the pair have embarked on a experimental dialogue spanning over 4000 miles.
About
Edwin and Dont Fret prove that distance is no barrier for two young artists with a penchant for social activism and late nights with buckets of paint. Over the past year, the pair have embarked on a dialogue spanning over 4000 miles.
Edwin, an artist and writer living and working in London, and Dont Fret, a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Chicago, have over the past year been sharing words, text and ideas via social media. These texts are then scrawled, spray painted, tagged, and rolled onto walls, unsanctioned, in each artist’s respective city. Dont Fret communicates a text to Edwin and he in turn tags it onto a wall in London, and vice versa. What began as a simple experiment in social communication, activism, and a ‘graffiti pen pal project’, has expanded with the events of 2016.
The UK’s Brexit vote, the turmoil of the US Presidential Election, the Refugee Crisis, each of these events have served to influence a project about a world that is so connected, yet so very disconnected. We are more capable than ever of communicating with one another, yet perhaps the least capable of actually learning from that exchange. Hence, ‘The Distinct Sound of Laughter in the Distance’.
Through an exchange of observational commentary, both artists’ witty and often blunt nature, and the inherent implications of illegal graffiti, this project aims to discuss and bridge the personal, social and political dialogues voiced not only on walls by the artists, but by the larger population of people in cities on both sides of the Atlantic.
‘The Distinct Sound of Laughter in the Distance’ will culminate in an exhibition of collaborative and individual works by the two artists and will include paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, and exciting interactive installations. The exhibition will coincide with the release of a book of the same name, a document of the work and process the two artists have created for this special project over the past year.
Private View and Artist Q&A: Thurs 10th November, 7-9pm. rsvp: info@unit5gallery.co.uk
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