Haluk Akakce
Martin Boyce
Jyll Bradley
Matthew Buckingham
Chen Chieh-jen
Julie Mehretu
Lee Mingwei
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Nobuko Tsuchiya
JMW Turner
9/9/2005
This storm is what we call progress
Arnolfini, Bristol
This international group show explores themes of progress, history, memory and loss. It includes paintings, photography, drawings, installations, film, video and sculpture and asks how, why and what we remember. The works invite us to reflect on the steady march of time, the trauma of progress and the wreckage of history. Invoking ghosts, spectres, phantoms and angels, these works explore our complex relationship to the past as well as our responsibility to the present.
Haluk Akakçe, Martin Boyce, Jyll Bradley, Matthew Buckingham, Chen Chieh-jen, Julie Mehretu, Lee Mingwei, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nobuko Tsuchiya, JMW Turner
This international group show explores themes of progress, history, memory and loss. It includes paintings, photography, drawings, installations, film, video and sculpture, many of which have never been seen in the UK before.
The exhibition asks how, why and what we remember. The works invite us to reflect on the steady march of time, the trauma of progress and the wreckage of history. Invoking ghosts, spectres, phantoms and angels, these works explore our complex relationship to the past as well as our responsibility to the present.
The exhibition includes a video installation by Chen Chieh-jen in the cinema/theatre (which closes at 5.45pm daily) as well as a screening of Daniel Brefin’s video Hollywood before each of the Sunday double bills. Daniel will be giving an introduction to his work on Sunday 11 September before the screening.
The exhibition ends on Sunday 23 October with a ceremony designed by Lee Mingwei.
Image: Tomorrow is Another Day, Haluk Akakçe, 2005. Courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol
10am to 8pm. Free