Venue
South Molton Street Gallery
Starts
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Ends
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Address
17 South Molton Street London, W1K 5QU
Location
London
Organiser
MA Fine Art UCA Farnham Exhibition

MA Fine Art UCA Farnham Exhibition

17 South Molton Street Gallery, London, W1K 5QU

Show open from Wed 16 – Sat 19 June 2021

Viewing times 11am – 5pm | Opening evening Tues 15 June 6.00-7.30pm

Lucy Bevin ~ Liz Clifford ~ Rups Cregeen ~ Mofe Demuren ~ Noelle Genevier ~ Robyn Jacobs ~ Michael Kelly ~ Dawn Langley ~ Li An Lee ~ Kate Madden ~ Catherine McCaw-Aldworth ~ Janet McWilliam ~ Nano Hour ~ Dana Phillips ~ Zihao Wang ~ Stef Will ~ Dean Wright 

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled”. (John Berger)

Is anything the same? Our lives have been disrupted, our routines and our very “ways  of seeing” have all changed; in short, our usual focus has been unsettled. Nonetheless, the realities that faced us before, continue and endure – but something  tells us that perhaps we need to look at things differently. We do not need to look very  far, just beneath the surface, on the other side of the door, behind the slogan, within  the wreckage, under the water, beneath the skin or even through the looking glass.  We need some sort of revaluation. Care and control have become central issues in  our lives. This fast changing and unpredictable environment presents important  questions around how we currently experience being human.

Against these actively destabilising events, against the here-and-now of our lives, Unsettled Focus reflects upon the experiences of our being-in-the-world. It reflects a  synthesis of the existential and the imaginary, of the fact that we are physically  grounded yet lost in thought, filled with life yet bound to die, looking back and looking forward.

The work itself spans mixed media, installation, film, photography, sculpture, painting,  drawing, collage and animation. Unsettled Focus can be seen through a series of  contextual lenses including, future geology and the Anthropocene, our relationship  with the machine and technological entanglements, place, the body and the home, the  skin and its boundaries, soft dystopia and how we care.

Through their work the artists challenge the complexities of how we see and feel in a  time of shifting social and cultural norms. This show brings together the diverse work  of the MA Fine Art community, to promote their collective and individual creative  practices and to benefit from the experience of curating their work. We hope to build  a network forging links with other arts organisations, curators, commentators and  artists, and to gain momentum for the artists at the beginning and at various stages of  their careers.

For more information: 

MA Fine Art Curatorial Group IG: @undertowprojects

https://www.instagram.com/undertowprojects

MA Fine Art Farnham, University for the Creative Arts IG @mafineartucafarnham  https://www.instagram.com/mafineartucafarnham/?hl=en

Curators contact details:

Mofe Demuren: [email protected]

Rups Cregeen: [email protected]

Stef Will: [email protected]