Exhibition

The sea is the limit

24 Nov 2016 – 14 Jan 2017

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Thursday
12:00 – 17:00
Friday
12:00 – 17:00
Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 17:00

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The sea is the limit is four artists’ reflections on migration, immigration, dispossession and borders. The exhibition expresses the clash of realities in the minds of the migrants as well as the receiving countries.

About

ARTISTS 

VARVARA SHAVROVA (born Moscow, ca 1970) 
http://www.varvarashavrova.com/ 

Russian born, Dublin and London based artist Varvara Shavrova has been investigating the topics of borders and migration for the past 12 years. Her ongoing multimedia “Borders” project reflects on the historic and current issues surrounding one of the longest borders in the world, the one between Russia and China. 
Shavrova is exhibiting a new series of drawings based on images from the Irish media on the migrant crisis as it began to unfold in September 2015. The series of 36 drawings would be shown as a large-scale projection as well as a wall based installations of the actual drawings. 
Shavrova is currently an MFA student at Goldsmiths College in London. 

NIDAHL CHAMEKH (born Tunis, 1985) 
http://www.nidhal-chamekh.com/ 

Tunisian artist Nidhal Chamekh works mostly with drawing and sculpture around themes of identity in regions of cultural change and upheaval. 
His large-scale drawing ‘Studying Circles’ which uses a protest self-burning as a motif is one of his main pieces. ‘Etude d’un Habitat Fortune’ and ‘icare’ relate to the situation in the Calais refugee camps. 
Nidhal Chamkeh’s works have been included in the Aichi Triennial in Japan this year as well as in ‘All the Worlds Futures’, the part of the 56th Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor in the Arsenale in 2015. 
Chamekh is currently a PHD researcher at the Sorbonne University in Paris. 

THOMAS KILPPER (born Stuttgart, 1953) 
http://www.kilpper-projects.de/blog/ 

German artist Thomas Kilpper is known for his socio-politically charged projects, in particular the large-scale woodcuts in disused buildings like Orbit House in London or the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin. For the London show, together with Italian artist Massimo Ricciardo, he has collected objects left behind by refugees in the boats that would be shown in vitrines as well as a video on his ongoing ‘A lighthouse for Lampedusa’ project. 
Thomas Kilpper has recently exhibited the Lampedusa project at the Bozar Museum in Brussels and other prints in the Kunstmuseum of Oslo and Kunsthaus Hamburg. His ‘Pavilion for Revolutionary Speech’ as part of the Norwegian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale was widely covered in the media. 
Kilpper teaches at the Bergen University in Oslo. 

SUSAN STOCKWELL (born Manchester, 1960) 
http://www.susanstockwell.co.uk/ 

Susan Stockwell's work takes many forms from small studies to large-scale sculptural installations, drawings and collage. It is concerned primarily with transformation and with issues of ecology, geo-politics, mapping, trade and history. 
Stockwell was recently artist in residence at the Royal Shakespeare society where she presented her project ‘SEA-MARKINGS’. She has shown ‘Sail Away’ in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. 
Her wall installation ‘Sweet Plums’ was part of the exhibition of the same title at Patrick Heide in 2015. It is a metaphor for migrant routes tracing it back to their colonial past and the impact they have today and could be part of a touring exhibition. 
Stockwell is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Varvara Shavrova

Nidahl Chamekh

Thomas Kilpper

Susan Stockwell

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