Stranger than fiction
dal 9/7/2004 al 12/9/2004
Segnalato da
Gavin Turk
Tracey Emin
Sunil Gupta
Graham Gussin
Julian Opie
Keith Piper
Jane & Louise Wilson
Steve McQueen
9/7/2004
Stranger than fiction
Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
A timely exhibition of photographs, video and film by many of Britain's leading contemporary artists. From Richard Billingham's photographs of his drunken father to Isaac Julien's elusive and enchanting fictional narratives, a potent and at times exotic world is revealed where truth is often more curious than fiction and fiction is made more powerful through fact.
We live in a time when reality TV and docu-drama dominate the television schedules. The relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is imagined in TV's 'The Deal' and the 'real' lives of the Big Brother household are presented to us as entertainment. The boundaries between truth and fiction, reality and entertainment are no longer clear-cut. This development has been reflected in some of the most interesting art of recent times.
Stranger than Fiction is a timely exhibition of photographs, video and film by many of Britain's leading contemporary artists. From Richard Billingham's photographs of his drunken father to Isaac Julien's elusive and enchanting fictional narratives, a potent and at times exotic world is revealed where truth is often more curious than fiction and fiction is made more powerful through fact.
Artists represented in the exhibition include Gavin Turk, Tracey Emin, Sunil Gupta, Graham Gussin, Julian Opie, Keith Piper, Jane & Louise Wilson and Steve McQueen.
Stranger than Fiction is a National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for Arts Council England.
Image: Graham Gussin, Beginning & Ending at the Same Time, (Horizontal Movie), I (Exhibition view, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris) 2001
Tullie House
Castle Street
Carlisle CA3 87P