Bianca Hester
dal 3/3/2008 al 12/4/2008
Segnalato da
3/3/2008
Bianca Hester
The Showroom (old venue), London
On show a new sculptural installation that engages the gallery as a place of production and responds to the social-material elements of the local environment of Bethnal Green. As the project develops, the installation will also function as an ad-hoc setting for a series of events.
The Showroom is delighted to announce that it has invited Melbourne-based artist Bianca Hester to make her first solo show in London during 2008. Hester will be in residence at The Showroom during January – March, making a new sculptural installation that engages the gallery as a place of production and responds to the social-material elements of the local environment of Bethnal Green. As the project develops, the installation will also function as an ad-hoc setting for a series of events.
In Australia, Hester is gaining a reputation for her collaborations and projects that collect activity around temporary structures and public situations. Through her practice, Bianca Hester explores materiality, architecture and social space; in the past this has involved using a range of prosaic materials (such as plasticine, dirt, carpet, ropes and miscellaneous building supplies) to create scattered installations of partial-objects and quasi-architectural constructions.
For The Showroom, Hester will assemble an ephemeral installation – consisting of sculptural elements, architectural propositions, video sequences and publications – which will host recordings and improvisations as well as micro-projects with artists and organisations.
Opening Tuesday 4 March 19-21
The showroom
44 Bonner Road London E2 9JS
free admission