I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT
Private View Friday 19 September, 6-9pm
First Thursdays 2 Oct & 6 Nov, 6-9pm
Exhibition continues: Sat 20 Sept – Thurs 6 Nov 2008
PRESS RELEASE
WW is a new artists' run project space in a Victorian terraced house on Hackney Downs, East London, showing artists using humour and darkness in contemporary art. The launch exhibition features work by local and international talent including Juneau Projects’s Ben Sadler – who is concurrently showing at Tate Britain.
‘If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.’
Marcel Proust
Junction Group Therapy, Eva Lis
Dreamers are always enthusiastic to share their dreams, but in all cases the dreamer is the auteur/audience and the dream-screening takes place in a vacuum. The artists in this show are all concerned with working to reconstruct the world from a personalised interpretation of scenes and sources, which may then be universally processed. Their influences are many and varied from the Primitive, the Sublime, German Romanticism, Dada, Surrealism, popular culture, experience and memory. The paradox of I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night is that it is not sleep, but dreams that are necessary for our wellbeing. Dreams allow us to go safely and quietly insane for a time each day. Each time we fall asleep, there is the opening of a new show.
WW launches with a group exhibition featuring works by 8 artists: Ben Sadler, Eva Lis, Monooka, Sonke Faltien, Anita Makris, Irlanda Zantone, Boa Swindler, Chiara Williams.
Plans For Finding True Love is an early piece by Birmingham-based Ben Sadler who makes work about remembering and forgetting. He is one half of Juneau Projects, currently showing their installation Trappenkamp at Tate Britain until 26 October 2008. Polish born Eva Lis’s work is informed by her own experience of immigration, integration and attempts to create connections with a history alien to her own. She has exhibited internationally and recently worked in collaboration with Canadian artist Ed Pien on Parade of the Denizens a horse drawn art exhibition. Last year Monooka began collaborating with Japan’s Electronoise Group (ENG) to form YES YES 5956, a translation of the word DADA and the distance between London and Tokyo. Their performance pieces combine experimental, electronic, concrete sounds and surreal voice improvisations with video-projected imagery. Sonke Faltien’s photographic series Reisen considers the relationship between the idea of the sublime and the utopian dream of the atomic age. Born in Germany, Faltien lives and works in Dalston, London and has exhibited in London, Liverpool, Malta, Bremen, Hildesheim (Ger) and Brno (Czech Rep). Award-winning filmmaker Anita Makris is showing her short film Transit, an atmospheric journey between real and emotional worlds. Austrian Makris was born in Greece and works in London and Hastings. Venetian socialite Irlanda Zantone obliquely makes work about the world she inhabits, in which vacant faces advance toward the viewer with sexual intent. Zantone works between Venice and Milan. This is her first show in the UK. Boa Swindler killed off her former self to start over again. In her past incarnation she exhibited in the US, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland and the UK. Her print-based work, derived from memories and popular culture, is both humorous and unsettling. Working in a variety of media, Chiara Williams attempts to share her experience of Synesthesia by making tangible that which is sensed. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Italy, Russia, Germany, USA.
WW
30 Queensdown Road
London E5 8NN
+447531342128
wwgallery@gmail.com
www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com
Open Fri & Sat 12-6pm and by appointment.
For more details please contact Chiara Williams on 07531342128