Beyond Belief
February 28th to March 22nd 2012
Surface Gallery presents ‘Beyond Belief’, an exciting series of short exhibitions and events in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, which will see students using a critical or reflective approach that engages with current debate surrounding curatorial practice.
The Fine Art students from NTU have been invited to submit proposals and their exhibitions will explore notions of belief, truth, falsehood and the difficulty in separating fact from fiction. More details of each exhibition will follow over the next month, but the shows will run to this schedule:
Exhibition 1: 28th February - 3rd March
Exhibition 2: 6th March, 7th - 12th March
Exhibition 3: 16th March, 17th - 22nd March
Slippery When Wet
Brendan Curtis and Rebecca Ounstead
February 28th to March 3rd 2012
Private view: Monday 27th February, 6-8pm
28th February - 3rd March
Surface Gallery presents Slippery When Wet, an installation based sculpture exhibition curated by Brendan Curtis and Rebecca Ounstead.
Slippery When Wet comes as a result of intensive collaboration. Sabotage and dichotomy will be explored in the interaction between Curtis’ and Ounstead’s work.
Bahktin’s notion of the carnival as a force for renewal, the analogue between formalism and symbolic visual motifs (cross-fade, close up) in Cinema, and an intensive experimentation with materials, and a desire to react against the curatorial conceit.
Curtis and Ounstead will explore the perceived disparity that exists between their practices, playing with the elements that polarise as well as unite them and exploring also, the gulf that separates human beings from each other. They will push the boundaries of their practices by attempting to accept and adopt each other’s working methodologies.
