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Under London Bridge Station, 20 Stainer Street, London, SE1 9RL
Are moths afraid of the dark? This is the question that video art duo SDNA – Valentina Floris and Ben Foot – ask in CINETAXIS, their spectacular exhibition in the sepulchral caverns of the Shunt Vaults, deep beneath London Bridge Read on…
Shunt Vaults, London
25 March - 4 April 2009
Reviewed by: Gillian McIver »
More than reviewing an exhibition here I will try to comparatively deconstruct the AAA paradigm (artwork/art institution/audience) by confronting two apparently strategically opposed models: the White Cube Gallery in Hoxton and the Shunt Lounge in Read on…
White Cube Gallery and Shunt Lounge, London
23 April - 17 May 2009
Reviewed by: Pau Cata »
Grand Finale opens with an invitation to be absorbed into artifice. An elegantly dressed woman stands on stage wearing a muzzle like a lab animal. She’s a fiction, she tells us, and she asks us to make her up. Next the male performers Read on…
Shunt Vaults
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson »
Eve Bonneau is naked in an alcove, her eyes shut and a single, white bulb hanging from a mike stand in front of her body. We are in one of the smaller rooms in Shunt Vaults, a dirty cave where this strange, naked woman stands like an altar statue, Read on…
Shunt Vaults
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson »
From the far end of a row of old railway arches underneath London Bridge station a white shape looms slowly out of the darkness. It slowly moves towards us. We strain to see more clearly but the shape is only glimpsed occasionally when shafts of Read on…
Shunt Vaults, Under London Bridge station
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham »
*I: a singular character. I is bold and sticks out between the lines on the page. A long stem with a blob on top-or a curve- as I write it. The smallest word there is for the most complex thing. I is theories, reflection, thought itself reduced to a Read on…
Shunt Vaults, Under London Bridge Station
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham »
'Covet Me, Care For Me' is Sheila Ghelani's two room live installation situated inside the underground maze of Shunt Vaults. In comparison to the dirty industrial installation or performance spaces that surround it, Sheila's space Read on…
Shunt Vaults, Under London Bridge station
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham »