It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Apeiron
March 3rd to March 4th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department continues with Apeiron.
This year’s NTU shows bring us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
Apeiron
Monday 3rd March from 6pm - Tuesday 4th March
APEIRON: - [The unlimited, the boundless; the raw stuff out of which all things arise and into which they dissolve again.]
A joint curated exhibition, presenting work by selected artists who deal with the visualisation and explanation of advanced scientific phenomena; the discoveries being made in our time which hitherto have been solely the stuff of fiction or fantasy.
The new science which is being slowly accepted by the mainstream is now pushing the boundaries of our collective imaginations; we are encountering a new cultural and philosophical paradigm in which anything is quite literally possible. The artists represented in this exhibition each have their own individual take on the science that governs our reality, they act as interpreters to guide us through the maze that is the quantum realm, to explain in their unique and accessible way the hypothetical ideas and solid facts that would push any imagination to its furthest boundaries…it couldn’t be made up.
Emerging in the space between science fiction and science fact, artists in this exhibition draw upon the visualisation and explanation of various scientific phenomena in order to create works which blur the line between science and the imagination, the hypothetical and the real.
Events
As part of 'It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Apeiron', we held several events over the course of the exhibition. See below for further details.
Interventions and Performances
Throughout the programme there will also be a number of interventions and performances where mistaken identities, secret exchanges and absurd encounters occur in the gallery space and erupt into the public realm.
Includes work by Dominique Humphreys, Bill Nguyen and Alia Pathan.