Harold Offeh
dal 6/2/2002 al 10/3/2002
Segnalato da
6/2/2002
Harold Offeh
Gasworks Gallery, London
Gasworks Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of London based artist. The exhibition will present several new works together with a selection of existing pieces. Working in video and animation, Offeh explores matters of desire, identity and the stereotyping of race within the framework of everyday life and popular culture. His work questions and challenges how typecast identities are spread through popular mediums like film and television.
Gasworks Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of London based
artist Harold Offeh. The exhibition will present several new works
together with a selection of existing pieces.
Working in video and animation, Offeh explores matters of desire,
identity and the stereotyping of race within the framework of everyday
life and popular culture. His work questions and challenges how typecast
identities are spread through popular mediums like film and television.
The exhibition includes the celebrated video 'Smile', 2001, where Offeh
has filmed himself holding a smile for the duration of Nat King Cole's
song of the same title.
Harold Offeh and Sonia Boyce will host an atrists disucssion at Gasworks
on Wednesday 20th February at 6.30pm. All Welcolme.
Preview: Thursday 7th February 6-9pm
Harold Offeh graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001. He has
previously participated in numerous group exhibitions including; 'Life.
A Users's Manual, the Baltic Sea Arts Centre, Gdansk, Poland, 2001, 'New
Contemporaries', Camden Arts Centre, London and The Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2001, 'Juncture, The Granary, Cape Town,
South Africa and Studio Voltaire, London and 'Headrush' and 'Beck's
Futures' both at the ICA, London in 2000.
Image: Harold Offeh, Smile, 2001, Video Still
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