Exhibition

The First Humans

22 Jan 2015 – 29 Mar 2015

Event times

Wednesday-Sunday 11am-4pm

Cost of entry

Free

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Pump House Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • 137,19,44,49,239,249,319
  • Sloane Square
  • Battersea Park / Queenstown Road
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A group exhibition that identifies and questions a trend among artists to evoke the very distant past. Featuring work by artists: Caroline Achaintre, Salvatore Arancio, Vidya Gastaldon, Andy Harper, Ben Rivers and Jack Strange.

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The First Humans looks at contemporary art with a prehistoric feel. Often incorporating synthetic colours or materials and a sci-fi aesthetic, much of it is spoof or tongue-in-cheek.

An installation by Andy Harper has an ancient, tribal quality, and Caroline Achaintre's wall hanging suggests primitive domesticity. There are primeval landscape sculptures and works on paper by Salvatore Arancio and Vidya Gastaldon, as well as artefacts by Jack Strange that are early-age-man-meets-twenty-first-century. In a film by Ben Rivers, a man tells how humans and fire were created.

This exhibition identifies and questions a trend among artists to evoke the very distant past. Could dramatic new archaeological findings explain it? Or is society suffering an identity crisis? Do we wish we could start again? We’ll be inviting visitors to supply the answers to these questions.

The First Humans is curated by Angela Kingston and supported by Arts Council England.

CuratorsToggle

Angela Kingston

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Salvatore Arancio

Ben Rivers

Andy Harper

Jack Strange

Vidya Gastaldon

Caroline Achaintre

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