THESE WORDS I SEEK ARE NOT MY OWN

Charlotte Bartrop – Darragh Boyd – Anna Borowicz – Jenny Cooper – Megan Hoyle – Tom Johnson – Will Kendrick – Vicki Ley

These Words I Seek Are Not My Own: presents new work by eight artists whose practices are imbued by a specific interest in extended painting. The exhibition attempts to address the continually evolving collective understanding of painting through a diverse range of outcomes and installational elements.


Accompanying the exhibition is an essay by Linda Khatir.

PRIVATE VIEW - 25th February 6.30-9.00pm

Exhibition open - 26th & 27th 11.00am-9.00pm

THE MEZZANINE

THE MEZZANINE

Motorcade/Flash Parade is pleased to present THE MEZZANINE, a contemporary art exhibition that explores concepts of absurdity through intervention, transition and interpretation. Meet us halfway.

Absurdity has many levels and meanings. It can refer to our inabilities of searching for a meaning in life, or it can simply imply foolishness, ridiculousness, senselessness. When standing between levels in an open plan space, you can see everything except what is going on underneath you. Below the mezzanine. What we think is absurd at first glance, often becomes something else once we take a deeper look below the surface…it may even become more absurd.

Four artists come together to reveal their own subtle interpretations of absurdity in an exhibition that combines installation, sound, sculpture and images.

Through intervention, transition and interpretation the artists will explore concepts of absurdity, such as ridiculousness, senselessness, irrationality and incongruity.

The Mezzanine is an intermediate meeting point where both the artists’ and viewers’ interpretation of the absurd meets.

Artists – Diana Smith, Polly Kelsall, Zanne Andrea, Natasha Carter.

MOTORCADE/FLASHPARADE, BV Studios, 37 Philip Street, Bedminster, BS3 4EA
Saturday 19th February 2011 10am – 5pm
Sunday 2oth February 2011 11am – 4pm
Preview 18th February 2011 6.30pm – 9pm


PHOTOS OF THE SHOW

SEND IN THE RESERVES

SEND IN THE RESERVES

A collaborative project by Anna Clawson and Nicole Ward.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY: Friday 11th February from 6 pm to late.

Send in the Reserves is a command with the potential for two objectives;
the infiltration to reoccupy a space or the enforcement of borders surrounding an
established area.

By isolating basic structures found within architectural landscapes the artists
instigate a context from which to explore the successive unfolding,
overlapping and shifting of facades.