Simon Senn: Fawcett Street

12 Sep-14 Nov 2015

Overview

The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) is pleased to present a new body of work by the Swiss artist Simon Senn. ‘Fawcett Street’, Senn’s first solo exhibition in the UK, is named after the street that the NGCA is situated on. For this new project Senn, along with an assistant, walked around Fawcett Street during the day asking people if they wanted to participate in a performance at the NGCA for a small fee. The participants were tasked with interpreting the singular instruction “be sensational” and asked to document each other’s actions with their own camera phones. These photographs were given to a psychologist by Senn who has written a series of reports based on the images which will be framed and displayed at the NGCA.