Wednesday 16th Apr - Saturday 17th May 2008

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CURATORS WHO WISH TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS

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Ana Prvacki - Tent, Quartet, Bows and Elbows, 2006-7

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Two of Europe's most prominent, and also most handsome, international curators invite you to view work by 10 artists.

The curators have selected ten artists with burgeoning international profiles. Rather than construct a group exhibition that provides content through juxtaposition of artworks, they have chosen to forefront and alter traditional modernist methods and tactics for display. They propose reflection on exchange, display, storage and curatorial practice itself.

Every 48 hours one of the artworks will be taken from the sprawling, chaotic storage racking in the gallery's rear space, and displayed alone in the main exhibition space at the front of the gallery. The other twenty or so artworks remain suspended inside the specifically produced environment, a context installed by Graham Hudson, where the various videos, photographs, objects and projections, simultaneously whir and play or sit quietly. After its two days in the white cubed foreground, the selected piece is de-selected and returned to its starting point, and another work takes its place. This process continues over the month until each work has been shown once in isolation.

When presented alone the content of the artwork remains extraneous to the exhibition as a whole, and when stored en mass the content is merged and diluted into the body of the 'Group Exhibition'. This system is both elegant and awkward, and provides the viewer with numerous potential experiences of the show and resists initial reading of a 'theme', focusing instead on the underlying structure. This echoes Hudson's graceful and lumpen sculptural installation, which provides a visual overload of items dragged into the space from the locality, selected by the artist to provide a mechanism to display other's work, using items from his pre-existing vocabulary.

Olivier Babin (b. 1975 France)

Elisa Pone (b. 1979 France)

Alban Hajdinaj (b. 1974 Albania)

Benoit Maire (b. 1978 France)

Rosa Barba (b. 1972 Italy)

Ana Prvacki (b. 1976 New York / Singapore)

Peter Liversidge (b. 1973 UK)

Lovett Codagnone (b. 1962 / 1967 USA)

caraballo-farman (Argentina, Iran, Canada)

Alexander Heim (b. 1977 Germany)

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Graham Hudson (b. 1977 UK)

Dave Hoyland and SEVENTEEN would like to thank the curators of this exhibition who would like to remain anonymous.