Signs of Id: an exhibition of artwork and film by Furst and Ori

Signs of Id: an exhibition of artwork and film by Furst and Ori, LV21

• LocationSouth East
• Type
• Salary
• Artformfilm, interdisciplinary arts, visual arts
• ContactNicholas Furst sergei.furst@gmail.com

Description

Signs of Id, which opens on the 11th of November, takes visitors on a journey into the bowels of LV21, a 40 metre lightship moored at Gravesend which has found a new life as an arts and performance centre since being decommissioned.

 Sergei Furst and Francesca Ori, known for their lightboxes and sculptures, have used the function of  LV21 as a warning of impending danger to inform their new installation, integrating their works into the machinery and hidden spaces of the ship. In an interconnected series of works they present  our obsessive pursuit of  scientific truths as  Conradian voyages into darkness. Ori and Furst elaborate on these themes using their manual skill in facial expression sculptures imprisoned in aquariums and illuminated narratives and images presented in multilayered lightboxes.

 In the gutted engine room at the heart of the boat two short installation films are projected into large air compression chambers. InLeaving Rats on a Sinking Ship, Furst weaves a fictional narrative around the crowding experiments using rat populations run by John B. Calhoun in the 1960s. In Emotional Illiteracy Ori simulates the manipulation of emotions for behavioural ends, and highlights the increasing use of fear as a social tool.

 A short Video by guest artist Dan Wootton and sounds by Berlin-based electronic composer Alberto Yusta embellish the discourse. 

 Furst and Ori's most recent exhibitions were Sagrada Familiaat Farley Farm Gallery in West Sussex,  in the grounds of the home of Lee Millar and Roland Penrose founder of the ICA; andModular Body in theAteneo in Malaga in May 2016.

 They received an Elephant Trust Award and the exhibition is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Art Council England.

 DETAILS: Signs of Id

Free entry to the public until the 27th of November 2016    

Hours: 11am -5pm  every Thurs Fri Sat and Sun

 LV21, Gravesend Pier, Kent DA11 0BG.

www.lv21.co.uk

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Signs of Id: an exhibition of artwork and film by Furst and Ori