14th – 15th January 11:00 – 20:00
Private view 13th January, 18:00 – 21:00
The branches hang heavy, sagging with the fruit sitting ready to pick. A bead of dew rolls down the waxy mango skin.
A hand reaches out and picks the fruit and now it sits ready to eat through the retina of your eye, full with the juices of life.
In this exhibition we present moving image works by 11 UK and International artists who provide an alternative outlook to the dominant narratives which exist in the spaces we inhabit.
Cauleen Smith speaks to the film industry using a similar model to colonialisation, in the building up of just enough infrastructure to extract the desired product, after which this is then removed before any wider use.3 In this she poses moving image as a practice with the ability to subvert this narrative by enriching communities in the form of speculative futures and pasts.
In this same vein we look to Laura Grace Ford’s quote on drifting through cities: ‘Love erupts and emerges as a subversive force’.4
By focusing on these alternatives, we centre love as an anarchistic overthrowing of dominant forces to imagine new futures, presents and pasts.
Enjoy the flavours of Ripened On a Tree as they dance across your taste buds, as you think on what you see beyond the sticky retina of your eye.
Presenting the works of:
Aliceson Carter, Tomas Fernandez, Marina Fragkioudaki, Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde, Molly Haviland, R.B Van heesch, Shivanjani Lal, Chris Owen, Sam Risley, Sherie Sitauze & Temitayo Shonibare.
Curated by Aliceson Carter & Molly Haviland.
Graphic design by Joe Carter.
