DISTANCE, PROXIMITY & CONNECTION
Vir Andres Hera, Vincent Broquaire, Jenny Feal, le Gentil Garçon, Jeremy Griffaud,
Cagla Erdogan, Jisun Lee, Moussa Sarr, Emmanuel Tussore and Ludivine Zambon
Dates:
8th to 24th November 2024, 1-6pm
Private View – You are invited to join us on Thursday 7th November, 5-8pm at
The Writers’ Room - Holy Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square, Islington, N1 0HN
How do we exhibit our unique ability to form profound attachments with other beings, objects and sites, no matter how tenuous, conflicted or remote, and can the relational affect of these connections render one’s own position visible?
A partnership between The Writers’ Room (Florence Trust) and EUCA Annex, the exhibition Distance, Proximity & Connection brings together a selection of new and recent moving-image works by France-based artists. This collection of works uses time-based media as a vessel to carry stories, and suggests an unsettled nexus of the human body, identity, architecture, discourse and modes of connection. At the same time, it shakes up our predefined understanding of human and human-object relations, by revealing how contexts can seduce, beguile or challenge us at every turn.
The exhibition is presented across two spaces, each with a distinctive architecture, one a Grade II deconsecrated church and the other a new build vaulted annex.
The Writers’ Room
Holy Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square, Islington, N1 0HN
writersroom.org.uk/ ( tube: Angel / Highbury & Islington )
open: Friday to Sunday - 8th to 24th November, 1-6pm
EUCA Annex
67 Havant road, Walthamstow, E173JE
eucaannex.com ( tube: Walthamstow Central / train: Wood Street )
open*: Thursday to Saturday - 8th to 23th November, 1-6pm
This project has been developed in response to recent exhibitions by the French curator Annie Aguettaz (founder of Imagespassages/Annecy and member of IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) including; ENCORE & EN-CORPS in Annecy, France (2023), featured a hundred video works by international artists, MOVING FOREVER, group exhibition featured film and video artworks, at Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (2023), and a screening event: NOW THEN curated by TC McCormack, for Imagespassages / Annecy (2023).
Distance, Proximity & Connection is curated by Annie Auchere Aguettaz
(curator) and TC McCormack (artist, curator & director of EUCA Annex).
The project has been co-facilitated further by Lu Rose Cunningham, Simon Lewandowski, Hang Zhang, Steven Allbutt and Yuka Namekawa of The Writers’ Room and The Florence Trust.
Film screening events: on Friday & Saturday 15th & 16th November
in the unique upper tier of the Holy Trinity Church, in Cloudesley Square, Islington, N1 0HN.
[ start times: 6.30pm on Friday 15th & 5.30pm on Satursday 16th November ]
*the film programme for both days will be announced in advance of the event
EUCA Annex is a new site for contemporary art production and cross-disciplinary research, offers more agile and commutable forms of address, through public discourse and site-sensitive dissemination.
The Writers’ Room offers residencies and opportunities for public engagement; a place to create new works that imagine and transform the world through the power of language.
Supported by Fluxus Art Projects, Imagespassages/Annecy, The Florence Trust, and ADMRC Research centre, Sheffield Hallam University
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