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MARGATE NOW announces artists, partners and projects for Sunken Ecologies Sadie Hennessy, Sunken Ecologies, 2021. MARGATE .-MARGATE NOW announces the artists, partners and projects for the 2021 Sunken Ecologies festival programme curated by Anna Colin, with permanent commissions by Nicolas Deshayes, Lindsey Mendick and Olu Ogunnaike, and commissions for the festival duration by headline artists Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Chodzko, Kim Conway, Sonia Overall, Christina Peake, Shamica Ruddock, Holly Slingsby, Francesca Ter-Berg and Sara Trillo. Sunken Ecologies takes on the human-made natural environment, centering on the Sunken Garden, a public park in the Westbrook area of Margate, designed and landscaped in the 1930s. ....
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Reconfiguring the figure in contemporary art Reconfiguring the figure in contemporary art At Timothy Taylor, New York, a new exhibition, ‘Reconfigured’ – featuring work by Polly Brown – invites us to re-examine the body as a subject Polly Brown, Photography: Theo Christelis. Courtesy the artist and Timothy Taylor, London / New York In ‘Reconfigured’, curated by Rose Easton, the work of ten UK-based artists spanning painting, sculpture, photography, print, film, and animation, challenges our preconceptions of how the body can be depicted in contemporary art. Photographer Polly Brown’s work often reveals elements of a body – frequently her own – in conceptual, often humorous compositions. As she explains further, ‘the use of the figure in my pictures has mainly been one of functionality. A hand or foot is there to activate the scene; a flailing limb purposefully left in the shot points towards the kinetic. The body is often simply a ....
Olu Ogunnaike’s Radical Revival of London Plane Trees A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities For London Plain (all works 2020) – a site-specific installation that reclaims Cell Project Space from its temporary, pandemic-induced programming hiatus – Olu Ogunnaike has covered the gallery’s original floor with a herringbone parquet. The artist sourced the lumber from London plane trees, which, due to their capacity to absorb pollution, were planted in abundance along roadsides in the capital during the industrial revolution and have more recently been seen as expendable when making way for municipal enterprises. Walking across the wobbling boards heightens our awareness of the transience of the work, which Ogunnaike compels us to pry up using a crowbar bearing traces of fingerprints and a mallet ( ....