EXHIBITIONS
Ruse: the artfulness of deceit
20.03.17 - 19.05.17
Zoe Beloff
Laurent Grasso
Bridget Smith
Clare Strand
Suzanne Treister
As television has become saturated with its own constructed take on ‘reality’ and news media has become more deeply embroiled in the question of what authenticity might actually mean - the exhibition takes time to explore some of the grey areas between reality and illusion. In some ways, ideas of reality are only a matter of belief, if this is the case, then the points where this is stretched to breaking point become of particular interest. In the world of the magic act, we know we are being tricked by the skill of the performer, the intrigue lies in the way it is done. Outside of the theatrical, where different kinds of deception take place, things are not always so easy to spot.
The exhibition focusses on things that are not quite what they seem. It is based firmly in the realm of the ordinary, but explores how this might be transformed. This appears through different guises; an interest in world of illusion, reconfiguring the pages of the mass media, cinema as a device to divert the masses. All of which relates to the desire to manipulate people and things. All of the work reflects on the shifting boundaries between reality, truth and illusion.
Preview
Friday 17 March, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Also see the CreativeTourist.com preview of the exhibition.
Zoe Beloff: Talk
Tuesday 28 March 2017
6pm — 8pm
Zoe Beloff will present an illustrated lecture on the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, which relates to the Dreams Films series on show in the current exhibition.
- Bridget Smith, Odeon (Blue), 1995. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street gallery
- Laurent Grasso, Polair, 2007. © Laurent Grasso / ADAGP, Paris, 2017
- Suzanne Treister, Alchemy/ The New York Times 7 March 2007, 2007. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Annely Juda fine Art, London
