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 Pône (b. 1979 France)
Alban Hajdinaj (b. 1974 Albania)
Benoît 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 (USA/USA)
Alexander Heim (b. 1977 Germany)
Graham Hudson (b. 1977 UK)
Dave Hoyland and Seventeen would like to thank the curators of this exhibition who would like to remain anonymous.
Graham Hudson, 15th and 16th April 2008, One Mile Radius from SEVENTEEN, E2 8AA, 2008
Installation view, 2008
Ana Prvacki, Tent, Quartet, Bows and Elbows, 2006-7
Single channel video with sound
Ana Prvacki, Tent, Quartet, Bows and Elbows, 2006-7
Single channel video with sound
Benoît Maire, Feuille Blanche #1, 2007 #2, #3, #4, 2008
Gouache tempera on wood, 22 x 35 cm each
Benoît Maire, Feuille Blanche #1, 2007 #2, #3, #4, 2008
Gouache tempera on wood, 22 x 35 cm each
Caraballo-Farman, For a while we were all protagonists, 2006
Single channel video on 15” LCD display, flash card, wall mount
Duration 40 mins
Peter Liversidge, Pair of Little Owls, 2007
Taxidemied Little Owl and Little Owl skeleton on cast branches
Alban Hajdinaj, UomoVogue, 2007
DVD, duration 31 mins 47
Alexander Heim, Untitled (Pavement), 2008
5 C-type prints, 15 x 23 cm each
Alexander Heim, Untitled (Pavement), 2008
5 C-type prints, 15 x 23 cm each
Rosa Barba, Western Round Table, 2007
16 mm projection installation
Alexander Heim, Untitled (Pavement), 2008
5 C-type prints, 15 x 23 cm each
Installation view, 2008
Lovett/Codagnone, To breathe in always even though it kills, 2006Joined megaphones, leather straps, black car paint
65 x 22 cm
Olivier Babin, Slip inside this house, 2005
Painted bronze
8 x 15 x 25 cm
Olivier Babin, Slip inside this house, 2005
Painted bronze
8 x 15 x 25 cm
Eliza Pone, Rent a dog, 2006
6 pigment ink prints on cotton paper
40 x 60 cm each, Unique