Exhibition
Sophie Dixon - LA MORT DE L’ARBRE
15 Aug 2015 – 16 Aug 2015
Turner Contemporary
Margate, United Kingdom
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Time Pressure Decay
Exhibition
Time Pressure Decay
15 Aug 2015 – 16 Aug 2015
Event times
August 15th & 16th. 11.00-17.00.
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The Old Printworks
- Bilton Square
- Margate
- CT91DX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Mainline trains run from London Victoria every 1/2 hour and take one hour and forty minutes. Trains also run from Ashford via Canterbury West. Bilton Sq is 10 a minute walk from the station.
Event map
Inspired by a recent residency in the former mining town of Lens, Northern France, Time Pressure Decay, an exhibition of photography, text and research coincides with a screening of Sophie Dixon’s latest film ‘La Mort De L’Arbre’ at the Turner Contemporary.
About
Coal is equal to Time Pressure and Decay.
The coal mining industry dominated the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France until the late 1980’s. The abrupt closure of the industry brought irrevocable change to entire communities, forcing them into a political and social struggle still evident today.
In 2012 the Louvre-Lens, a multi-million euro annex of the Louvre, Paris, was built in the former mining town of Lens. Like the Turner Contemporary, the Louvre-Lens was viewed as a catalyst to help regenerate the region through the arts. In the first quarter of 2015 Sophie Dixon undertook an artist residency in the town under the cross-Channel ADRT scheme, one of a series of art-based initiatives associated with the Louvre-Lens.
Time Pressure Decay is based upon a series of books and a central image, works which expand upon the research and experiences accumulated while making La Mort De L’arbre, a fifteen minute film screening at the Turner Contemporary over the same weekend. http://www.cratespace.co.uk
