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6/6/2012

Tainted Love

Meter Room, Coventry

Selected by Corinna Spencer

You are an obsession, you’re my obsession…

For those who do not share it, unconditional devotion is seen as unhealthy and unsettling, typically loaded with negative stereotypes and labels of deviancy. But to the devotee, their chosen idol, however undeserving, is at the centre of the world, skirting between reality and fantasy.

Tainted Love is a day-dreamingly, dark installation questioning what it means to desire, cherish, seek, long, admire, envy, celebrate, protect or destroy. These desires for desire inform aspects of how we make sense of the world, in relation to mass media, and in relation to our historical, social and cultural locations to create meaning in our everyday lives where the traditional bonds of race, religion and ethnicity are increasingly diminished and where fantasy functions as an empty surface for the projection of our desires. Ranging from simple groups of paintings to more elaborate devotional structures, each is dedicated to what Proust claimed was 'the only successful (sustainable) love’, unrequited.

Alice Anderson, Kirsty Buchanan, Annabel Dover, Georgie Flood, Andrea Hannon, Paul Kindersley, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Alli Sharma, Corinna Spencer, Mark Scott Wood, Jessica Voorsanger

Preview & Arty 31: Tainted Love launch, Thurs 7 June 6-8.30pm

Meter Room
58-64 Corporation Street - Coventry - West Midlands - CV11GF
Gallery Open Fri-Sun 1-5pm

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